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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him
Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises
Life is one long process of getting tired
Life is not an exact science, it is an art
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character
Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only
It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us
It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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