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William Shenstone

"There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy."

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"There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy."

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"Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed."

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"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."

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"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."

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"People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid."

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"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."

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"Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances."

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"Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self."

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"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"

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"Religions get lost as people do."

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"Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts."
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"What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim."
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"The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last."
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"A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich."
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