Theophrastus Quotes
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Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
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He's frustrated with the situation over the last couple years.
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Nothing moves around, it just goes straight from the start to the end. The final draft on the final day, that's it, same for the novels. What I turn in is what you see. There are some exceptions, but almost always I can see exactly what it's going to be.
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I've never seen a postcard of my work in a museum.
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If you are pleased with what you are, you have stopped already. If you say, "It is enough," you are lost. Keep on walking, moving forward, trying for the goal.
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There must be some good in the cocktail party to account for its immense vogue among otherwise sane people.
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But fight we must; and conquer we shall; in the end.
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Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.
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A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
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I take so little interest in my daily life, that I hardly remember to eat and drink.
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If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
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Before hastening to secure a possible reward of five taels by dragging an unobservant person away from a falling building, examine well his features lest you find, when too late, that it is one to whom you are indebted for double that amount.
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A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either.
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I definitely try and wash my face twice a day, and I never go to bed with my makeup on. I mostly just wash my face and try to not touch my face because that's when you get pimples.
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Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.
