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"Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again."
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"When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise."
"Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other."
"The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp."
"Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none."
"An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise."
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"It is foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend as upon the chastity of a wife."
"Silence propagates itself and the longer talk has been suspended the more difficult it is to find anything to say."
"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
"Perhaps the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in a few words.We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because, for a time, they are not remembered; and he may therefore be justly numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to recur habitually to the mind."
"If the man who turnips cries Cry not when his father dies 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father."
"No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments."
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