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If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
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Ignoramus: A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.
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In terms of the black female audience, usually if you're true to that character but more so in your body of work if you've proven that you love your sisters and you proven you will come back home like in 42.4% they'll give you a pass when you jump ship. I hear it all the time.
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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.
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It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.
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Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
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Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads.
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Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
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Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
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Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation.
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Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.
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Once, when a British Prime Minister sneezed, men half a world away would blow their noses. Now when a British Prime Minister sneezes nobody else will even say 'Bless You'.
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Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
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People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.
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Pray. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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Pray: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911) -
Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.
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