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"Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on."
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Personal Development

"Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me."
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"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."
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"It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego."
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"An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause."
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Personal Development

"Think before you act and act on what you believe."
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"The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous."
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"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."
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"In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking."
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"One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses."
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"A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband."
Husband

"Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body."
Body

"There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy."
Pleasure

"That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart."
Heart

"To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude."
Solitude

"A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript."
Mind

"The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life."
Life

"A Woman is naturally more helpless than the other Sex; and a Man of Honour and Sense should have this in his View in all Manner of Commerce with her."
Sex

"Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip."
Destruction

"Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable."
Beauty
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