The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
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We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
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Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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