People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty.

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We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.

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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

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God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.

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Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.

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To live is like love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

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