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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.

Graham Greene

Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
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Cold Diamond Heart Oneself Precious Value Warmth
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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Corruption Enemy Ignorance Simplicity Worst
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
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Ego Evil Happiness Ignorance Man Myself Point
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Harm Innocence Lost Meaning World
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
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Boredom Greatness Party People Word Writing
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
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Challenge Lying Seek Success Truth
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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Brother Democracy Love Peace Production
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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Adult Crime Marriage Money Politics
It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
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Dangerous Discover Leadership Life Man Misery Strange Time Worst
You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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Distance End Love Relationship Scare See

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