Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
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I have been forced to conclude from this that we know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Job)
I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.
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Posted by: Lady R.
No egoism is so insufferable as the Christian with regard to his soul.
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Posted by: Stefano Gandolfi
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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Posted by: Walter Catella
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
In old age one repents for sins one has not committed.
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I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked... it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.
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