Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
F. H. BRADLEYAdam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
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We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart’s blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.
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The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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