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"Dinner a time when . . . one should eat wisely but not too well and talk well but not too wisely."
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"Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray."
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"The remedy is worse than the disease."
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"Discipline is needed in our temperance."
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"Muslim moderates, wherever they are, must be given every tool necessary to win a war of ideas with their co-religionists. Otherwise, we will have to win some very terrible wars in the future."
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"Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never."
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"Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same."
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"Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise."
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"We never repent of having eaten too little."
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"Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on."
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"Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending."
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"The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties."
Trouble
"Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered."
Day
"The crown of literature is poetry."
Poetry
"What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature."
Life
"It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it."
People
"A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing."
Home
"We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits."
Friendship
"When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character."
Character
"I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me."
Life
"It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent."
Work
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