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I have read that the secret of gallantry is to accept the pleasures of life leisurely, and its inconveniences with a shrug; as well as that, among other requisites, the gallant person will always consider the world with a smile of toleration, and his own doings with a smile of honest amusement, and Heaven with a smile which is not distrustful — being thoroughly persuaded that God is kindlier than the genteel would regard as rational.

James Branch Cabell's Popular Quotes

The optimist sees a light at the end of the tunnel, the realist sees a train entering the tunnel, the pessimist sees a train speeding at him, hell fo…

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Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong

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Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

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While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.

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Some few there must be in every age and every land of whom life claims nothing very insistently save that they write perfectly of beautiful happening…

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Whatever there is to know, That shall we know one day.

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I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys; and it is with these three …

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There is no gift more great than love.

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I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.

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