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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

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Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.

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Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else.

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Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

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The result of a single action may spread like the circles that expand when a stone is thrown into a pond, until they touch places and people unguesse…

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There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

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The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

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A Library goes on as far as thought can reach.

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The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.

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There is more to marriage than four bare legs under a blanket.

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