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Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us.

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Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.

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We call the beautiful the highest, because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good and the heartlessness of the true.

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Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.

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Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?

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God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.

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A man of no conversation should smoke.

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Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.

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Always pay; for first or last you must pay your entire debt.

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How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.

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It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.

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Private, accidental, confidential conversation breeds thought. Clubs produce oftener words.

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Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to nature and the human constitution, but as making a sort of Third Estate with the world and the soul. Hence, the restorers of readings, the emendators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees.

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To Be is to live with God.

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People who wash much have a high mind about it, and talk down to those who wash little.

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American mind a wilderness of opportunities.

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Real men don't conform to the beliefs of others, even when society has concluded on what is good and true, but maintain the integrity of their own mind.

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It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

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The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be multiplied without preventing their consumers from affirming themselves through the exercise of their personal freedom.When market dependence reaches a certain threshold it deprives people of their power to live creatively and to act autonomously. And precisely because this new impotence is so deeply experienced, it is expressed with difficulty.

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I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.

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