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What are you after? Well, said Zaphod airily, It's partly the curiosity, partly a sense of adventure, but mostly I think it's the fame and the money.
White House pressrooms (no matter which political party is in charge) toss out a huge dump of bad news around 5:00 PM every Friday. Which as far as I can tell is at least five hours after the media corps has clocked out for a three-martini lunch with no intention of coming back to work until Monday.
The generality of friends puts us out of conceit with friendship; just as the generality of religious people puts us out of conceit with religion.
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
The happiness or unhappiness of men depends no less upon their dispositions than their fortunes.
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We have more strength than will; and it is often merely for an excuse we say things are impossible.
If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!
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The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.
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We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.
It is given to few persons to keep this secret well. Those who lay down rules too often break them, and the safest we are able to give is to listen much, to speak little, and to say nothing that that will ever give ground or regret.
The moderation of fortunate people comes from the calm which good fortune gives to their tempers.
The accent of one's country dwells in the mind and in the heart as much as in the language.
O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side! Measure for Measure, Act iii, Scene 2
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It ought not to be the leading object of any one to become an eminent metaphysician, mathematician, or poet, but to render himself happy as an individual, and an agreeable, a respectable, and a useful member of society.
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'O opportunity! Thy guilt is great, 'tis thou that execut'st the traitor's treason; thou set'st the wolf where he the lamb may get; whoever plots the sin, thou point'st the season; 'tis thou that spurn'st at right, at law, at reason; and in thy shady cell, where none may spy him, sits sin to seize the souls that wander by him.
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The word will, however, is not always used in this its proper acceptation, but is frequently substituted for volition, as when I say that my hand moves in obedience to my will.
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