"The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up."

Day, Dorothy on abstinence
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"If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves."

Hellman, Lillian on writers and writing
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"The way to be nothing is to do nothing."

Howe, Nathaniel on idleness
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"No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money."

Johnson, Samuel on art   

"Good counselors lack no clients."

Shakespeare, William on experts
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"Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in."

Franklin, Benjamin on wives
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"Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination."

Burroughs, William S. on games
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"Maturity is knowing when to be immature."

Hall, Randall on maturity
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"With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity."

Nair, Keshavan on courage
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"An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field."

Bohr, Niels on experts
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"Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it."

Meltzer, Bernard on kisses and kissing
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"One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests."

Mill, John Stuart on belief
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"Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world."

Penn, William on books - reading   

"Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of a door."

Ogburn, Charleton Jr. on animals   

"The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is."

Stein, Ben on reality
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"Riches have wings."

Proverb on riches   

"To buy happiness is to sell soul."

Horton, Doug on happiness   

"It is the passions that do and undo everything."

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier on passion
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"The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were."

Quarles, Francis on reputation   

"Anyone who profits from the experience of others probably writes biographies."

Jones on biography   

"Medicines are only fit for old people."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on medicine   

"Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned."

Sokoloff, Boris on happiness
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"When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work."

Cocteau, Jean on originality
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"The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on curiosity   

"All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems."

Hull, Raymond on marriage
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"Many a man never fails because he never tries."

Macewan, Norman on failure   

"Every man must get to Heaven his own way."

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II) on individuality
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"A riot is the language of the unheard."

King Jr. Martin Luther on rebellion
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"It is much easier to be critical than to be correct."

Disraeli, Benjamin on criticism
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"Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents."

Samuel, Viscount on equality
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"We are usually the best men when in the worst health."

Proverb, English on health
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"In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create."

Vaneigem, Raoul on industry
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"Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure."

Hayakawa, S. I. on failure
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"When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve."

Hill, Napoleon on desire
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"Belief creates the actual fact."

James, William on belief
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"I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master."

Young, Brigham on law and lawyers
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"The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first."

Pascal, Blaise on writers and writing   

"More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause."

Cathcart, Jim on business   

"If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do."

Ball, Lucille on effort
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"What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image."

Boorstin, Daniel J. on god
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