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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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Personal Development
"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
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"There's a lot of ingredients go into being a good tennis player."
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Personal Development
"I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness."
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Personal Development
"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."
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"Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish."
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"Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying."
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"A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself."
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"Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me."
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"Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other."
Life
"Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us."
Fear
"The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised."
Being
"Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle."
Family
"Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature."
Nature
"To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world."
Travel
"Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart."
Home
"If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age."
Life
"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do."
Happiness
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