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Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.
Our lives don't make sense in abstraction, only when compared with the lives of others.
The manufacture of wax candles was another important branch of business in the nunnery.
the most important quality of an inept person is to rely on popular belief and hearsay.
Happy are you, reader, if you do not belong to this sex to which all good is forbidden.
You stay young as long as you can learn, acquire new habits, and suffer contradictions.
Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.
How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy.
All that is due to us will be paid, although not perhaps by those to whom we have lent.
It's funny how the night that changes your life forever starts out like all the others.
If the sins of the flesh ever got old I didn't ever want enough years on me to know it.
Jesse Jackson's living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim culture
Appeasement is a vote to live in the present tense, to hold the comforts of the moment.
How'd it feel?" Rube asked himself. "I don't know exactly, but it made me want to howl.
I'm sorry. I shouldn't be asking such things...' She let the sentence die its own death
Laughter is taken as a sign of strength, freedom, health, beauty, youth, and happiness.
In my mind, continuity means the best writer at a company is held hostage by the worst.
Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on.
Isola doesn't approve of small talk and believes in breaking the ice by stomping on it.
If absolute sovereignty be not necessary in a State, how comes it to be so in a family?
For a writer, capturing that elusive Christmas morning magic can be deeply problematic.
[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.
It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.'
We all of us need assistance. Those who sustain others themselves want to be sustained.
Decide what the rest of your life is to be. Whatever you are now, you might be forever.
What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.
Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.
Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
I think my writing changed when I put 'the' in front of my titles. It had more command.
I know that if you don't look for an alternative, Sophos, you certainly won't find one.
Kings also sleep; but the clever ones, with one eye open, just like dolphins and whales
Water is the most perfect traveller because when it travels it becomes the path itself!
When a good change is flowing towards you, don't stand like the river stones before it!
As long as death exists, men will continue to exist only as a shadow, not a real thing!
As long as you stay as a good hearted person, you will keep the innocence in your face.
Even if it is made up of gold, the sailing boat can go nowhere without the humble wind!
Flowers have the greatest talent in converting an ordinary place into a magical palace!
Frog in the mud is happier than the man, because it has no ambition to reach the stars!
If a man gives you a harsh winter, give him back something unexpected: The warm spring!
In the very darkness of a stupid society, even a little candle deserves a great honour!
It is easy to sit and it is easy not to think; you do the opposite: You walk and think!
No coward can be the friend of the truth! Cowards have always been the friends of lies!
Optimists are childish; they even believe they can find an ice cream store in the hell!
Religion is an illusion and every illusion has the inevitable destiny of a soap bubble!
Religion is not a bridge between God and Man; it is a Great Wall of China between them!
Since there are thousands of reasons to be happy, let us smile so many thousands times!
Sometimes principles must be quitted without blinking en eye to discover the new paths!
Use the rows, otherwise you either go nowhere or you are drifted to somewhere unwanted!
Whatever their ideas or ideologies or religions are, always get along well with people!