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"Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto."
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"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."
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"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."
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"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
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"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."
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"Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of half-clothed handshake for bragging rights, none hers."
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"There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings."
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"Reality spilled out into the alley like water from an overfilled bowl - as sound, as smell, as image, as plea, as response."
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"To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common."
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"We live that we might have experience; that through it we might gain wisdom, compassion, faith, and inner strength."
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"A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life."
Life
"Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto."
Experience
"Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter."
Glory
"The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life."
Life
"The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living."
Competition
"War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known."
War
"Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy."
Family
"In the state of nature profit is the measure of right."
Nature
"The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame."
Thought
"During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man."
Man
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