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Sufficiency's enough for men of sense.
Don't be so humble. You're not that great.
Wise men argue causes, and fools decide them.
If our friends' idealizations of us need the corrective of our own experience, it may be true also that our own sordid view of our lives needs the corrective of our friends' idealizations.
O gentle Romeo, If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully. Or if thou think'st I am too quickly won, I'll frown and be perverse and say thee nay, So thou wilt woo: but else, not for the world.
A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.
One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun.
After pleasant scratching comes unpleasant smarting.
One cannot both feast and become rich.
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs, jolted by every pebble in the road.
Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
I never was ruined but twice - once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I gained one.
The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose, not his individuality, but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports him.
Time has a way of demonstrating . . . the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
Happiness hates the timid!
Make hay while the sun shines.
Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material I have. It is a sheer waste of time and soul-power to imagine what I would do if things were different. They are not different.
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars: general good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer. For art and science cannot exist but in minutely organized particulars.
I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.


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