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"Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences."
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"Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences."

"Consequences need not be the obstacles that I dread, but the direction that I need."

"Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful."

"Some decisions in life naturally lead to an unhappy ending, leaving you sinking by degrees in a lake of quicksand. And, unless someone reaches to pull you out, chances are you will drown in the consequences."

"All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations."

"If I'm going to do anything extreme, I want it to have consequences."

"A fool's bolt is soon shot."

"Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched."

"If you want to know the value of a year, ask the student who was in the final year of his university education, when the lecturers went on strike and the school ended up closing for a year."

"Every blade has two edges, he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other."
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"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."


"Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity."


"The thoughts of his mind, besides, were of the gloomiest dye; and when he glanced at the companion of his drive, he was conscious of some touch of that terror of the law and the law's officers, which may at times assail the most honest."


"Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health."
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