If we're told that an odd piece of our china is worth a hundred pounds, how rare its beauty.
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If you are losing your leisure, look out You are losing your soul.Logan Pearsall Smith
The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
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He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.
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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
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We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
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That we should practice what we preach is generally admitted but anyone who preaches what he and his hearers practice must incur the gravest moral disapprobation.
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Mind moves matter.
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