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"Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."
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"Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so."
Judgment
"Remarks are not literature."
Literature
"I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed."
Art
"The thing that differentiates man from animals is money."
Money
"There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more."
Life
"Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting."
Nature
"There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything."
Beginning
"I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go."
Fun
"Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money."
Money
"Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything."
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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."
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Personal Development
"Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, see to the (be?) worthy of being known."
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Personal Development
"Being is more important than doing."
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Personal Development
"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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Personal Development
"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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Personal Development
"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."
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Personal Development
"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
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Personal Development
"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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Personal Development
"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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Personal Development
"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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Personal Development
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