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"I can discover within me no power of perception which is not glutted with its proper pleasure, yet I do not feel myself delighted. Man has surely some latent sense for which this place affords no gratification, or he has some desires distinct from sense which must be satisfied before he can be happy."
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"Sniffing glue is a homeless nonbeliever's prayer."

"The negative way of thinking based on constant complaints, strains, and objections of discontent steals our energy."

"Words don't have the power to hurt you, unless that person meant more to you than you are willing to confess."

"Who has fear? The one who has greed has fear."

"For how long are the people who seek for the approval of others keep putting their self-worth in the hands of people?"

"Visiting the sick' is an orgasm of superiority in the contemplation of our neighbor's helplessness."

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"Overriding the old information in your mind with new information is easy, but to actually go further than just putting a veneer over your old mindset is the way forward."

"We sometimes try to impress people we just met by not trying to impress them."

"I'm sorry, but I do hate this differentiation between the sexes. 'The modern girl has a thoroughly businesslike attitude to life' That sort of thing. It's not a bit true! Some girls are businesslike and some aren't. Some men are sentimental and muddle-headed, others are clear-headed and logical. There are just different types of brains."
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"It is foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend as upon the chastity of a wife."

"Silence propagates itself and the longer talk has been suspended the more difficult it is to find anything to say."

"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."

"Perhaps the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in a few words.We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because, for a time, they are not remembered; and he may therefore be justly numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to recur habitually to the mind."

"If the man who turnips cries Cry not when his father dies 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father."

"No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments."
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