I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.
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A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.
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Our dourest parsons, who followed the nonconformist fashion of long extemporary prayers, always seemed to me to be bent on bullying God.
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Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
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