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"Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world."
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"Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low."
"Love and attraction is the magnetic language of the heart."
"The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance."
"Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is."
"When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it."
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"I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget."
"Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense."
"The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him."
"God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing."
"A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices."
"If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow."
"You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor."
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