"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

Twain, Mark on death
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"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."

Miller, Henry on war
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"With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other."

Dickens, Charles on hypocrisy
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"A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could."

Hazlitt, William on hypocrisy
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"Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself."

Beecher, Henry Ward on selfishness
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"Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love."

Hawthorne, Nathaniel on selfishness
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"He who takes but never gives, may last for years but never lives."

Unknown, Source on selfishness   

"None are so empty as those who are full of themselves."

Whichcote, Benjamin on selfishness
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"We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on hypocrisy
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"It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish."

Heraclitus on adversity   

"One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night."

Gibran, Kahlil on adversity
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"Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom."

Ellis, Havelock on fools and foolishness
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"It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own."

Cicero, Marcus T. on fools and foolishness
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"A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees."

Blake, William on fools and foolishness
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"Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others."

Twain, Mark on genius
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"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are."

Twain, Mark on friends and friendship
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"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."

Twain, Mark on forgiveness
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"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

Twain, Mark on fools and foolishness
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"He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that."

Twain, Mark on flowers
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"Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

Twain, Mark on ambition
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"A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval."

Twain, Mark on aid and assistance
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"We have the best government that money can buy."

Twain, Mark on government
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"Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame."

Twain, Mark on grammar
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"What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows -- it must grow; nothing can prevent it."

Twain, Mark on growth
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"Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in."

Twain, Mark on heaven
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"History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal."

Twain, Mark on history and historians
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"One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell."

Auden, W. H. on hell   

"Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots."

Hawthorne, Nathaniel on affection
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"Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on affection
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"A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat."

Smith, Logan Pearsall on affection
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"Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on youth
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"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."

King Jr. Martin Luther on acceptance
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"Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope."

Hunt, Leigh on affection
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"The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on affection
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"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on absurdity
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"At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face."

Camus, Albert on absurdity
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"My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then."

Byron, Lord on absurdity
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"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education."

Twain, Mark on education
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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

Twain, Mark on education
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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard on change
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