Mason Cooley Quotes
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I am easy-going right up to the borders of my self-interest.
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Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.
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Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.
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Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.
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Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine.
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Romantics consider common sense vulgar.
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As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.
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A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.
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My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.
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The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth.
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Art seduces, but does not exploit.
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We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.
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Don't stare into a mirror when you are trying to solve a problem.
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Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.
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Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.
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Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.
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If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.
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Wisdom remembers. Happiness forgets.
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Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.
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I see what you mean, but I do not think what you think.
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Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.
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Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them.
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Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.
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Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.