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Pain is life...

Pain is life...

Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.

Source: Letter to Bernard...

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The man must...

The man must...

The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.

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It is the...

It is the...

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in...

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The fool within...

The fool within...

The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.

Source: In

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It is only...

It is only...

It is only the amateur [gardener] like myself who becomes obsessed and rejoices with a sadistic pleasure in weeds that...

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I always wear...

I always wear...

I always wear my sweater back-to-front; it is so much more flattering.

Source: In...

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Even when freshly...

Even when freshly...

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be...

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Life affords no...

Life affords no...

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another,...

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A dramatist is...

A dramatist is...

A dramatist is a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom.

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Forty years ago...

Forty years ago...

Forty years ago he was Slightly in Peter Pan, and you might say that he has been wholly in Peter Pan ever...

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We want a...

We want a...

We want a president who is as much like an American tourist as possible. Someone with the same goofy grin, the same...

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One cannot collect...

One cannot collect...

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if...

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I understand why...

I understand why...

I understand why the saints were rarely married women. It has primarily to do with distractions . . . Woman's normal...

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We tend not...

We tend not...

We tend not to choose the unknown, which might be a shock or a disappointment or simply a little difficult to cope...

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The most exhausting...

The most exhausting...

The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.

Source:...

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Wit penetrates; humor...

Wit penetrates; humor...

Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good...

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Fools make researches...

Fools make researches...

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.

Source: A Modern Utopia, ch. 2,...

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Advertising is legalized...

Advertising is legalized...

Advertising is legalized lying.

Source: In Quotable Business, ed. Louis E. Boone,...

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In England we...

In England we...

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the...

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We grow a...

We grow a...

We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.

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