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"Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing."
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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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Personal Development
"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."
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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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Personal Development
"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."
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Personal Development
"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
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"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."
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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"
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"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."
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"There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment."
Development
"Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind."
Travel
"You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful."
Food
"The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness."
Etiquette
"Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us."
Life
"It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled."
Principle
"Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves."
Writing
"Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace."
Travel
"The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume."
Etiquette
"Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art."
Life
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