We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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