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 The extra calories needed for one hour of intense mental effort would be completely met by eating one oyster cracker or one half of a salted peanut.  A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. In time of war the devil makes more room in hell. Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough. The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it. Let no one who loves be called unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow. If the chief party, whether it be the people, or the army, or the nobility, which you think most useful and of most consequence to you for the conservation of your dignity, be corrupt, you must follow their humor and indulge them, and in that case honesty and virtue are pernicious. You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. None think the great unhappy, but the great. At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument. Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again. A ceremony of self-wastage - good talkers are miserable, they know that they have betrayed themselves, that they have taken material which should have a life of its own, to disperse it in noises upon the air. Leisure time is when your wife can't find you The things people discard tell more about them than the things they keep. Magic lives in curves, not angles. If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. - Goethe There are still a few of us booklovers around despite the awful warnings of Marshall McLuhan with his TV era and his pending farewell to Gutenberg. Can you understand how cruelly I feel the lack of friends who will believe in me a bit? Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. 
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