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A wise man...

A wise man...

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Source: In

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If you find...

If you find...

If you find a good solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next...

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The things we...

The things we...

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

Source: Reflpxions...

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The sad truth...

The sad truth...

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Source: The Feminine Eye,...

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The mark of...

The mark of...

The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons...

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The paradox of...

The paradox of...

The paradox of education is precisely this -- that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society...

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I am playing...

I am playing...

I am playing with myself,
I am playing with the world's soul,
I am the dialogue between myself and el espiritu...

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We are closer...

We are closer...

We are closer to the ants than to butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

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Old age takes...

Old age takes...

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

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Books are funny...

Books are funny...

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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In the company...

In the company...

In the company of the accomplished, people hope it will rub off on themselves, in the company of the misfortunate,...

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Lips that taste...

Lips that taste...

Lips that taste of tears, they say
Are the best for kissing.


Source:...

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As artists they're...

As artists they're...

As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it...

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It's in the...

It's in the...

It's in the preparation -- in those dreary pedestrian virtues they taught you in seventh grade and you didn't believe....

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Certum est quia...

Certum est quia...

'Certum est quia impossibile.' It is certain because it is impossible.

Source: 'De...

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The ordinariness of...

The ordinariness of...

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

Source:...

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Patience is the...

Patience is the...

Patience is the best medicine.

Source: First Frutes.
-- John Florio, ( ...

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Leisure for reverie,...

Leisure for reverie,...

Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life.

Source: Realism in...

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If you can...

If you can...

If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have...

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A human being...

A human being...

A human being isn't an orchid, he must draw something from the soil he grows in.

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