“In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom.”
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“Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it.”
“Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you.”
“The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've got responsibilities.'”
“You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true.”
“Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.”
“There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands.”
“For two cents the voter buys his politics, prejudices, and philosophy.”
“At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me.”
“There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion.”
“The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?”
“I care not who hoes the lettuce of my country if I can eat the salad!”
“He was sufficiently spoiled to be charming; she was ingenuous enough to be irresistible.”
“He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations.”
“All life is just a progression toward, and then a recession from, one phrase— 'I love you.'”
“Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply - I was casually sorry, and then I forgot.”
“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”