"The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to smoke, to meet together convivially, to laugh, to joke, and tell indelicate stories- and mainly, a yearning to paint pictures."

Behavior, Eating, Smoking, Laughter, Story

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"New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"Stupidity has a knack for getting its way."

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"So unsirious work... I behave nice because I want people to behave in the same way with me."

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

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"Guard your heart and mind against double-minded pretentious beings. Do not allow infiltration beyond the surface. If their influence travels on the inside, they become like an incurable disease."

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"I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, 'There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge?"

Elizabeth Gilbert, American Novelist

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"Behavior speaks... When you need money, the church tells you to pray. When the church needs money, they pass around a basket."

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"You will be more disappointed in life by the things that you do not do than by the things that you do."

Regret

"Habit is habit and not to be thrown out of the window by any man but coaxed downstairs a step at a time."

Habit

"The time to being writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say."

Advice

"I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone."

Opinion

"Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul."

Humility

"I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't."

Morality

"That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace."