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Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
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Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
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Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?
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Growing up in Texas and Oklahoma, Ben Johnson was more famous than John Wayne to some of us. I knew him. I worked with him on a low budget film years ago, and we'd sit around at night while waiting for a shot.
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Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. The lords prayer is less than 50 words long, and 6 of those words are devoted to asking god not to lead us into temptation.
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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence.
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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
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Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning's gentle wine! Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; 'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede.
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Happy people do not demand a lot from the world because their happiness proceeds from a place deeper than the world can touch.
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Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of state is for the public good; no greater crime against the public interest is possible than to show leniency to those who violate it.
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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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Hast thou virtue? Acquire also the graces and beauties of virtue.
Poor Richard
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