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All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.

Herman Melville

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Friendship Love Sight Truth
I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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Cherish Comic Greatness Myself Obligation Religious Respect
Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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Animal Interfere Man Money
We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
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Below Further Future Hope Past Present Reach Scale
The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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Man Material Poor
The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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Death Infidelity Live Man Vote
What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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Application Feeling Man Opinion Play Truth Universal
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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Compromise Edge Ragged Truth
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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Art Greatness Growth Known Life Master Old Wisdom Work
Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.
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Dumb Evolution Face Infinite Space Surface Talk Time
They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Dignity Leisure Life Success Talk Work
If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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Better Food World Yourself
A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Choice One Liner Smile Vehicle
There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.
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Charming Comfortable Empty Sadness Unknown
Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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Bird Blessing Dreams Home Shelter Sick View Yourself
When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
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Born Equality Freedom Legal Men Slave Writing

All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.

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