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"If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police."
"It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face."
"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."
"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."
"The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye."
"I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered."
Exlpore more Addiction quotes
"It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it."
"Drinking is such a necessity to human life that people cannot fathom an individual who, like a child confined to a church pew, gets little enjoyment out of it and would rather do other things."
"The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. ... Substance abusing writers are just substance abusers - common garden variety drunks and druggies, in other words. Any claims that the drugs and alcohol are necessary to dull a finer sensibility are just the usual self-serving bullshit. I've heard alcoholic snowplow drivers make the same claim, that they drink to still the demons."
"Everybody smokes! Models, actresses, everyone! Don't they realize that it's gross? I understand it's an addiction, but it still pains me to see my friends do it."
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