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"I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give."
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"You can either buy clothes or buy pictures," she said. "It's that simple. No one who is not very rich can do both. Pay no attention to your clothes and no attention at all to the mode, and buy your clothes for comfort and durability, and you will have the clothes money to buy pictures."
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"The bed is just a decoration in a busy man's bedroom."
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"Never miss day without a walk."
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"A person who is in a constant rat race seldom has time to think whether or not he is living his life properly."
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"A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu."
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"The sedentary life...is the real sin against the holy spirit."
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"It might be a little silly for someone getting to be my age to put this into words, but I just want to make sure I get the facts down clearly : I'm the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I'm the type of person who doesn't find it painful to be alone. I find spending an hour or two everyday running alone, not speaking to anyone as well as four of five hours at my desk, to be neither difficult or boring."
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"I believe in a glamorous life. I believe in the everyday application of the outrageous."
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"My hobbies are reading, writing, listening to music and dancing."
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"Never get out of bed before noon."
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"War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses."
Peace
"All authority belongs to the people."
Politics
"Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital."
Wisdom
"Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."
Wisdom
"So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done."
Leadership
"Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it."
Wisdom
"Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it."
Friendship
"The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave."
Freedom
"The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money."
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"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
Freedom
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