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W. H. Auden
One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
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Napoleon Hill
Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best.
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Billie Holiday
You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.
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Henry David Thoreau
In wildness is the preservation of the world. - from Walking
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James Albert Michener
An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
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Lin Yutang, O Magazine, October 2002
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone…The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.
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Robert A. Heinlein
How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.
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Chinese Proverb
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
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John Burroughs
The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song
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Heinrich Heine
It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to all.
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Confucius
The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.
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James Bridie
Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.
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