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Bits of jokes, bits of statistics, bits of foolery.
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To be at other people's orders brings out all the bad in me.
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No, no; women, old or young, should never have to think about money.
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That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.
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Perhaps it is while drinking tea that I most of all enjoy the sense of leisure.
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Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion.
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A pipe for the hour of work; a cigarette for the hour of conception; a cigar for the hour of vacuity.
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The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm.
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Mr Quarmby laughed in a peculiar way, which was the result of long years of mirth-subdual in the Reading-room.
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Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.
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Though a man be well versed in a science such as palaeontology it does not follow that he will view it in its philosophical relations.
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Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable?
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The thought, however, of his girls having to work for money was so utterly repulsive to him that he could never seriously dwell upon it.
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It is our duty never to speak ill of others, you know; least of all when we know that to do so will be the cause of much pain and trouble.
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Science brings forth its newest discoveries in earth and heaven; it speaks to the philosopher in his solitude, and to the crowd in the market-place.
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Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman.
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It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children, the days are long with gathering of experience...
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It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.
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The insult was thrown out with a peculiarly reckless air; it astounded the hearer, who sat for an instant with staring eyes and lips apart; then the blood rushed to his cheeks.
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People have got that ancient prejudice so firmly rooted in their heads — that one mustn't write save at I the dictation of the Holy Spirit. I tell you, writing is a business.
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Keep apart, keep apart, and preserve one's soul alive—that is the teaching for the day. It is ill to have been born in these times, but one can make a world within the world.
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For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every sky has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.
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I hate with a bitter hatred the names of lentils haricots - those pretentious cheats of the appetite, those tabulated humbugs, those certified aridites calling themselves human food!
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When I think of all the sorrow and the barrenness that has been wrought in my life by want of a few more pounds per annum than I was able to earn, I stand aghast at money's significance.
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Of course, if your work is strong, and you can afford to wait; the probability is that half a dozen people will at last begin to shout that you have been monstrously neglected, as you have.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
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Born:
November 22, 1857
Died:
December 28, 1903
(aged 46)
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