Happy Thought

The world is so full of a number of things,
I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.

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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.

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If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.

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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

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