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"Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."
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"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."
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"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."
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"How long does the experience of pleasure or pain stay with you? For as long as there is weakness within. Then, further ahead they will not be there. There, one remains the 'Knower' of experience of pleasure and pain."
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"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
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"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."
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"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."
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"Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might have been.Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord."
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"Elders in the dark see better than children in the light."
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"Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of half-clothed handshake for bragging rights, none hers."
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"Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope."
Hope
"Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay."
Life
"Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced."
Wisdom
"To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice."
Positive
"Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage."
Marriage
"Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized."
Choice
"Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic."
Art
"Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue."
Virtue
"I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London."
People
"Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."
Experience
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