Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners --your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards --who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.
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Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.Thornton Wilder
The tiny tealeaf of consciousness spreads its bittersweet smoke through the sea of the primitive mind. Law is invented, then morality, then love, then forgiveness. Thousands and thousands of ideas, knit together over time, each one less practical and more ornamental than the last, all stretched taut above the wandering, wondering heads like a little pavilion a temporary shelter for the human project.
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Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
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A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.
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There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.
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A play visibly represents pure existing.
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