This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
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The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.William Lyon Phelps
In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.
William Lyon Phelps
The highest happiness on earth is marriage. Every man who is happily married is a successful man even if he has failed in everything else.
William Lyon Phelps
Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.
William Lyon Phelps
A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.
William Lyon Phelps
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
William Lyon Phelps
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