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What each must seek in his own life never was on land or sea. It is something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend.
The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.
If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.
The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
The truly religious man does not embrace a religion; and he who embraces one has no religion.
Why does this magnificent applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us little happiness? The simple answer runs: because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.
General Grant had a simple, childlike [recipe] for meeting life…I am terribly afraid, but the other fellow is afraid, too.
Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties.
In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
The pleasure is momentary, the position rediculous, and the expense damnable.
In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has.
October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.
You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.
