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Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didn't have religion.
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Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
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What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
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What I worry about is that people are losing confidence, losing energy, losing enthusiasm, and there's a real opportunity to get them into work.
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What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.
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What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
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When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.
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When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.
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When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered is how much has been escaped.
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When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.
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When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.
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When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.
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When lorry drivers come up behind me and I'm cycling, innocently keeping to my side of the road, and they decide because they are so big, and their lorry is so powerful, and they just want to clear me out of the road, and they hoot aggressively, then I do see red a bit. I do.
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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
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