An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
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If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband, for the same reason that it is more difficult to show a ready wit all day long than to produce an occasional bon mot.
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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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I prefer thought to action, an idea to an event, reflection to activity.
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