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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
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The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them.
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.
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The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
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The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
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The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
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The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.
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The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
― Henry Ward Beecher
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The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.
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The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts.
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