Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
BERTRAND RUSSELLNo one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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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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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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The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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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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