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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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"As a general rule, Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers."
"The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not."
"Believing in God is great, getting obsessed with it is the problem."
"Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."
"The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Therefore, love moderately."
"In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires."
"There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation."
"Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it."
"Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us."
"It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project."
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"They will notdisappoint you, and you will look upon them morecharitably. Men seek but one thing in life-their pleasure."
"You've been brought up like a gentleman and a Christian, and I should be false to the trust laid upon me by your dead father and mother if I allowed you to expose yourself to such temptation.'Well, I know I'm not a Christian and I'm beginning to doubt whether I'm a gentleman,' said Philip."
"Everything passed, and what trace of its passage remained? It seemed to Kitty that they were all, the human race, like the drops of water in that river and they flowed on, each so close to the other and yet so far apart, a nameless flood, to the sea. When all things lasted so short a time and nothing mattered very much, it seemed pitiful that men, attaching an absurd importance to trivial objects, should make themselves and one another so unhappy."
"On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influence of conditions which were part of the planet's history; and as there had been a beginning of life upon it, so, under the influence of other conditions, there would be an end: man, no more significant than other forms of life, had come not as the climax of creation but as a physical reaction to the environment."
"It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you for it was the illusion they loved."
"It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories."
"Philip looked at his own work. How could you tell whether there was anything in it or whether you were wasting your time? It was clear that the will to achieve could not help you and confidence in yourself meantnothing."
"A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her . . . but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account."
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