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"How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words."
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"Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!"

"Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight."

"I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels."

"Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly."

"My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness."
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"Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?"

"At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past."

"Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance."

"A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods."

"Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness."

"Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature."

"An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it."
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