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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
The obscurest epoch is today.
The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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