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"Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience."
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"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."
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"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."
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"How long does the experience of pleasure or pain stay with you? For as long as there is weakness within. Then, further ahead they will not be there. There, one remains the 'Knower' of experience of pleasure and pain."
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"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
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"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."
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"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."
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"Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might have been.Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord."
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"Elders in the dark see better than children in the light."
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"Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of half-clothed handshake for bragging rights, none hers."
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"Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible."
Truth
"Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws."
Justice
"The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses."
Man
"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."
Lie
"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."
Humor
"There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool."
Happiness
"Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience."
Experience
"The worst men often give the best advice."
Man
"As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time."
Time
"I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death."
Death
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