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Powerful to alleviate, to delay, to camouflage, though money is, in the end it lets us down.
In fact, there's a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports and the way they are conducted.
Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain.
It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.
It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.
The most consistent men are not more unlike to others, than they are at times to themselves.
Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects.
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.
Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.
A man can well afford to be as bold as brass, my good fellow, when he gets gold in exchange!
Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.
I went away, dear Agnes, loving you. I stayed away, loving you. I returned home, loving you!
Did it ever strike you on such a morning as this that drowning would be happiness and peace?
In a sense, habits never really disappear. Once formed, they always remain in our neurology.
It is absurd to suppose, if this is God's world, that men must always be selfish barbarians.
You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself!
Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.
The trouble is, if you go too far towards being polite, the label that applies is "doormat".
Feminist: A person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes.
If your face is swollen from the severe beatings of life, smile and pretend to be a fat man.
The netherworld is timeless and unchanging, and boring -- much like a doctor's waiting room.
Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.
It struck me that distant cities are designed precisely so you can know where you came from.
There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than I am.
I'm able to separate fiction and reality. I guess it remains to be seen if other people are.
Next time you wish to feed me poison, warn me first," Loor demanded. (The Merchant of Death)
Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.
You must have a good time meeting people if you expect them to have a good time meeting you.
Success in dealing with people depends on sympathetic grasp of the other person's viewpoint.
I've never done well when I've been appreciated. I've done best when I'm targeted for death.
Actions receive their tincture from the times, And as they change are virtues made or crimes
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
I've bumped into at least three people in town who all insist 'Winter's Bone' is about them.
When you write fiction, you have an ideal reader in your mind who's sort of you but smarter.
Language is a personality as well. People are different when they speak different languages.
We are taught that we can be better than we are. But is there a limit to how good we can be?
Nothing that's really worthwhile should be easy, Belgarion. If it's easy, we don't value it.
I have so little control over the act of writing that it's all I can do to remain conscious.
To be adult in relationship is not to be conflict-free, it's to resolve conflicts mindfully.
Son, the greatest trick the Devil pulled was convincing the world there was only one of him.
It was all the things you could never understand and could never possess that made you ache.
One of the most constant and sustaining truths of my life has been this: I love the library.
When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar.
A garden should be natural-seeming, with wild sections, including a large area of bluebells.