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Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others... This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
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Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.
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With better gear, firefighters no longer surround and drown a fire - they go in.
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With the jam bands I've seen, it's about music, and it's about theory, and it's about making everyone feel better with music.
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Women excel more in literary judgment than in literary production, they are better critics than authors.
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Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.
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Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.
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Women serve but to keep a man from better company.
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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it ;better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.
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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. ''Be bold!'' and everywhere - ''Be bold; Be not too bold!'' Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.
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Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.
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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.
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You are not, nor ever will be, better than anyone else besides the person you are now.
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You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.
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