Norman Douglas Quotes
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The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery.
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How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.
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He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.
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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
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Learn to foster an ardent imagination; so shall you descry beauty which others passed unheeded.
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Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
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The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.
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Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?
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You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.
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The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit.
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It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.
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The families of our friends are always a disappointment.
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The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in his palm the happiness of mankind, the welfare of generations yet unborn.
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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.
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Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.
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The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.
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The secret of happiness is curiosity
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You can cram a truth into an epigram - the truth, never.
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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
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Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest.