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All I can do is act according to my deepest instinct, and be whatever I must be-crazy or ribald or sad or compassionate or loving or indifferent. That is all anybody can do.
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual... would be, I think, an American cow.
The groom is so much better for her than her last boyfriend. He's sophisticated, he brings her flowers and candy, he dines by candlelight. Her last boyfriend thought it was enough to spray her name on a fence.
A saint is to put forth his faith in prayer, and afterwards follow his prayer with faith.
Let us do or die.
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
There are no little events in life, those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered, and of small importance.
With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination.
A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
A good gulp of hot whisky at bedtime - it's not very scientific, but it helps.
I have come to realize that all my trouble with living has come from fear and smallness within me.
Extreme busyness, whether at school, or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality; and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
Better be happy than wise.
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
Life is always at some turning point.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skills. Our antagonist is our helper.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Without duty, life is soft and bone less.


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