"How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep."

Shelley, Percy Bysshe on death
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"Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on death   

"No vacation goes unpunished."

Hakkarainen, Karl A. on vacation   

"I don't care how much a person talks, if they only say it in a few words."

Billings, Josh on speakers and speaking   

"The less routine the more life."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on life
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"Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined."

Billings, Josh on life
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"Life is very interesting if you make mistakes."

Carpentier, Georges on life
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"Life is one long process of getting tired."

Butler, Samuel on life
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"I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them."

Twain, Mark on travel
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"Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable."

Allen, Woody on life
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"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right."

Gandhi, Mahatma on freedom
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"A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself."

Brougham, Lord Henry P. on law and lawyers
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"A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500."

Brewster, Benjamin on law and lawyers
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"Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made."

Bismarck, Otto Von on law and lawyers   

"The law is reason, free from passion."

Aristotle on law and lawyers
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"When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target."

Fisher, Geoffrey F. on perfection
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"Luck is the idol of the idle."

Proverb on luck
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"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."

Letterman, Elmer G. on luck
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"I won't belong to any organization that would have me as a member."

Marx, Groucho on association
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"Living with a saint is more grueling than being one."

Neville, Robert on association
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"In law, nothing is certain but the expense."

Butler, Samuel on law and lawyers
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"Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably."

Capote, Truman on law and lawyers   

"If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased."

Hepburn, Katharine on joy
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"Without discipline, there is no life at all."

Hepburn, Katharine on discipline
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"We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone."

Froude, James A. on loneliness
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"At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self."

Francis, Brendan on loneliness
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"It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely."

Einstein, Albert on loneliness
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"Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain."

Bowen, Elizabeth on loneliness
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"The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."

Frost, Robert on law and lawyers
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"The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on law and lawyers
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"If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers."

Dickens, Charles on law and lawyers
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"Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know."

Armstrong, Louis on ask   

"If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself."

Billings, Josh on perfection   

"My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on addiction
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"Music can't change the world."

Geldof, Bob on change
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