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The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.
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The reason why we see that people of the greatest capacity are not rich, is either they despise wealth in comparison to something else, or, they are not content in getting an estate, unless they may do it in their own way, while at the same time enjoying all the pleasures and gratitude's of life.
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The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written.
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The recounting of a life is a cheat... even our own stories are obscenely distorted.
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The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments, surprises, and crises is a life full of landmarks. The empty life has even its few details blurred, and cannot be remembered with certainty.
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The riches of life, the love and joy and exhilaration of life can be found only with an upward look. This is an exciting world. It's cram-packed with opportunity. Great moments wait around every corner.
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The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.
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The rugs that I picked out and the pillows with the little owls, sort of like whimsical throw pillows - I feel like you can never enough whimsical throw pillows in your house, in your life. My husband probably disagrees.
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The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.
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The scupltor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.
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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
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The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesn't discover the overlap between what the individual did and the life that made this possible. Without discovering that, you have shapeless happenings and gossip.
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The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
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The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function.
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The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.
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The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to liver dangerously.
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The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
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The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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