The wise man reads both books and life itself.

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Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.

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'I have done my best.' That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.

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When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.

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Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.

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This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought.

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This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

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If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

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No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

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A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

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