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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Bertrand Russell

I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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Book Hate Reading
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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Book Enjoyment Reading
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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Doubt Fundamental Intelligence World
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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Intelligence Prepare Present
The use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
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Control Direction Harm Wrong Yourself
It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Easy Fall In Love Relationship
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Success Thinking Try
One must care about a world one will not see.
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Deep Future Oneself See World
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Deep Philosophy Science Yourself
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Born Education Man Stupidity
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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People Secret Virtue
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
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Believe Food Goodness Honesty Live Myself People Sex Word
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Death Deep People Philosophy Thinking
So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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Intelligence Myself Religious Remember
No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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Believe Deep Nation Virtue

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