"I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?"

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"I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?"

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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian."

Frank Herbert, American Writer

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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure."

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"It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep."

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"I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor."

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"Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it."

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"Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?"

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"There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?"

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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."

"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."

"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."

"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."

"The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian."

"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."

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"Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce."

"The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat."

"I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty."

"Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure."

"It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep."

"I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor."

"Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it."

"Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?"

"Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp."

"There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?"