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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.

Herman Melville

The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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Blind Evil Ourselves Removal Worst
A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Choice One Liner Smile Vehicle
Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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Better Choice Drink Sleep Sober
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
I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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Easy Life Man Myself Way Youth
Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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Dishonor Himself Respect
Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
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Better Family Fool Himself Husband Life Maid Man Men Old Partner Stay Woman
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
Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
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Assumption Criticisms Humanity Poor Rich
All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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Command Convince God Hard Persuade Remember
My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Better Body Myself
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
The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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Eyes One Liner Soul Way
One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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Awake Cool Man Morning One Liner Wisdom
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Friendship Love Sight Truth
You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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Knowledge Ourselves Reason Wisdom

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