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It is impossible to win gracefully at chess.
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Chess Grace Impossible
We can’t all and some of us don’t. That’s all there is to it.
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Anxiety Depression
Some people care too much. I think it’s called love.
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Care Love People Thinking
Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die. Still you wait and will not try – A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.
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Bird Born Dare Die Fly Opportunity Rise Swift Time Try Wait Wings
Doing nothing often leads to the very best of something.
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Lead Life
So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.
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Book Introduction Perhaps Stop
A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.
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Friendship Honey Inside Pot
Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
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Bad Game Golf Sports World
Food is a subject of conversation more spiritually refreshing even than the weather, for the number of possible remarks about the weather is limited, whereas of food you can talk on and on and on.
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Food Number Possible Spiritual Weather
Something feels funny. I must be thinking too hard.
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Feeling Funny Hard Thinking
Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.
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Drug Flower
I’m not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.
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Confusion Lost
Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.
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Bother Hear Listen Positive Underestimate Value
Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
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Bad Game Golf Sports World
When you do the things that you can do, you will find a way.
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Finding Motivational Positive Purpose
Think, think, think.
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Inspirational One Liner Think
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
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Humour Impossible People Sarcastic
Nowhere can I think so happily as in a train.
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Happiness Journey Train Travel
It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at all.
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Book Invitation People Run Terrible
If you want to make a song more hummy, add a few tiddely poms.
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Song Want
If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin.
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Respect Statement True
What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
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Character Decent Fellow Man Patato Pretty
Any day spent with you is my favorite day. So today is my new favorite day.
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Couple Favourite Friendship
Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more to give way to the happiness of the person you love.
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Happiness Love Person Step
Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.
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Life Thinking
A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
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Money Want Work Writer
One of the advantages of being disorganized is the joy of discovery.
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Advantage Discover Joy Organization

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