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It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless you have plenty of work to do. Idleness to be sweet, like kisses, must be stolen. Jerome K. Jerome
There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life; one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit principles to our lives. If we do not live as we think, we soon begin to think as we live. The method of adjusting moral principles to the way men live is just a perversion of the order of things. Fulton J. Sheen
Epicurus quote: "If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of..."
If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires. Epicurus
Laurell K. Hamilton quote: "I give good advice. I do not always take it."
I give good advice. I do not always take it. Laurell K. Hamilton
Suzanne Collins quote: "This is what they do! And we must fight back! Fire is..."
This is what they do! And we must fight back! Fire is Catching. And if we Burn, you Burn with us! Suzanne Collins
Dean Koontz quote: "I do not permit blasphemy, the F-word, or obscenities such as..."
I do not permit blasphemy, the F-word, or obscenities such as soy milk at my table. Consider yourself chastised. Dean Koontz
It is good to know what you are doing. The man with his pickled fish has set down one truth and has recorded in his experience many lies. The fish is not that color, that texture, that dead, nor does he smell that way. John Steinbeck
There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers. Edith Hamilton
I do not think that there is so much wretchedness in us as vanity; we are not so much wicked as daft; we are not so much full of evil as of inanity; we are not so much pitiful as despicable. Michel de Montaigne
In a life, or a portion of a life illuminated, there's a fullness and a balance that no theory or abstraction can match. Why do people waste so much time on abstraction? The life that is given to us, that we play out, is something that you cannot any more grasp with systems and ideas than you can tame an elephant with tweezers. Mark Helprin
Jack Kerouac quote: "It's hard to explain and best thing to do is not be false."
It's hard to explain and best thing to do is not be false. Jack Kerouac
In perpetrating a revolution, there are two requirements: someone or something to revolt against and someone to actually show up and do the revolting. Dress is usually casual and both parties may be flexible about time and place, but if either faction fails to attend, the whole enterprise is likely to come off badly. Woody Allen
We know that poverty is unpleasant; in fact, since it is so remote, we rather enjoy harrowing ourselves with the thought of its unpleasantness. But don't expect us to do anything about it. We are sorry for you lower classes, just as we are sorry for a, cat with the mange, but we will fight like devils against any improvement of your condition. We feel that you are much safer as you are. The present state of affairs suits us, and we are not going to take the risk of setting you free, even by... George Orwell
He caught me to him and cupped my cheek in one hand. “I want to keep feeling the way I feel when I’m with you. Just tell me what I have to do. Sylvia Day
Barbarism? Hah! When we kills people we do it there and then, lookin' 'em in the eye, and we'd be happy to buy 'em a drink in the next world, no harm done. I never knew a barbarian who cut up people slowly in little rooms, or tortured women to make 'em look pretty, or put poison in people's grub. Civilization? If that's civilization, you can shove it where the sun don't shine! Terry Prachett

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