Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder – and turn quickly to my typewriter.
SYDNEY J. HARRISNobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
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Take away grievances from some people and you remove their reasons for living; most of us are nourished by hope, but a considerable minority get psychic nutrition from their resentments, and would waste away purposelessly without them.
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Marriages we regard as the happiest are those in which each of the partners believes he or she got the best of it.
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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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Many married couples separate because they quarrel incessantly, but just as many separate because they were never honest enough or courageous enough to quarrel when they should have.
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By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his mind what he wants to do, and is looking for confirmation rather than counseling.
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Many people feel “guilty” about things they shouldn’t feel guilty about, in order to shut out feelings of guilt about things they should feel guilty about.
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Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
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Making out an invitation list for a party brings out the worst in everyone. It is then that our most ruthless estimates of the people we know come into play.
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Many people know how to work hard; many others know how to play well; but the rarest talent in the world is the ability to introduce elements of playfulness into work, and to put some constructive labor into our leisure.
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The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.
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When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’
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We may hate a person because he reminds us of someone we feared and disliked when younger; or because we see in him some gross caricature of what we find repugnant in ourself; or because he symbolizes an attitude that seems to threaten us.
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Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams. Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter.
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