One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINOne of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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It’s an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
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Never insult anyone by accident.
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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
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An armed society is a polite society.
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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
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When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
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It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
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