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"Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn."
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"I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me."
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"Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree."
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"No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things."
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"It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it."
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"In some units it may suppress the motor discharge altogether, in some it may merely slow the motor discharge thus lessening the wave frequency of the contraction and so the tension."
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"A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute."
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"I have to live with both my selves as best I may."
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"New Yorkers may think they're on some cutting edge, but that's not especially true. It is, however, the most exciting heterogeneous mess of a town I've ever seen."
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"It may not be possible to get rare roast beef but if you're willing to settle for well done, ask them to hold the sweetened library paste that passes for gravy."
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"There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live."
Folk
"The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit."
Trees
"I feed on good soup, not beautiful language."
Language
"As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt."
Men
"Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same."
May
"The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself."
Love
"Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood."
Talk
"All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing."
History
"Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money."
Money
"No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living."
Life
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