"To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement."

Addison, Joseph on amusement   

"Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency."

Addison, Joseph on lies and lying
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"One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter."

Addison, Joseph on laughter
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"Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor."

Addison, Joseph on honor
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"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."

Addison, Joseph on happiness
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"True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions."

Addison, Joseph on happiness
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"I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want."

Twain, Mark on desire
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"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."

Twain, Mark on deception
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"When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people."

Twain, Mark on deception
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"By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean."

Twain, Mark on adversity
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"There is no great genius without a mixture of madness."

Aristotle on genius
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"Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him."

Wilde, Oscar on nations
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"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

Wilde, Oscar on education
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"The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered."

Wilde, Oscar on duty
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"The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane."

Twain, Mark on dissent
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"The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity."

Twain, Mark on joy
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"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it."

Confucius on mistakes
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"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."

Franklin, Benjamin on expectation
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"I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people."

Franklin, Benjamin on enemies
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"No comment is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again."

Churchill, Winston on expression
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"Familiarity breeds contempt; and children."

Twain, Mark on familiarity
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"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."

Twain, Mark on facts
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"I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey."

Twain, Mark on evolution
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"Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied."

Twain, Mark on envy
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"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

Wilde, Oscar on dream
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"She is absolutely inadmissible into society. Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit."

Wilde, Oscar on grace
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"There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People."

Wilde, Oscar on despotism
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"How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?"

Thoreau, Henry David on education
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"You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds."

Thoreau, Henry David on eccentricity
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"If one advances confidently in the directions of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

Thoreau, Henry David on dream
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"Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes."

Thoreau, Henry David on distrust
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"If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life."

Thoreau, Henry David on deeds and good deeds
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"We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a belly-full of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on education
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"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on education
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"All diseases run into one. Old age."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on disease
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"If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on discovery
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"We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on age and aging
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"What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook."

Thoreau, Henry David on education
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"I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well."

Thoreau, Henry David on egotism
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"Even the best things are not equal to their fame."

Thoreau, Henry David on fame
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