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"A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world."
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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."

"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."
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"Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force."

"None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience."

"There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks."

"Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds."

"Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject."

"While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern."
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