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Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.
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Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
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Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which never can return.
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Swans sing before they die - t'were no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing.
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.
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That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
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That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments.
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That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.
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That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.
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That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.
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That which is to be loved long must be loved with reason rather than with passion.
Idler -
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.
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The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
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The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
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The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
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