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A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.  
A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.  
An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't ...  
As I grow to understand life less and less I grow to love it more and ...  
Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.  
Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like ...  
Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything yo...  
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the suc...  
Fame is a constant effort  
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.  
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation ...  
I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial...  
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.  
It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For t...  
It is not how old you are, but how you are old.  
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tire...  
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empt...  
Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very lo...  
Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak ...  
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.  
Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.  
Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writ...  
The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful ...  
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invita...  
The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not...  
The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, ...  
There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.  
There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that ...  
Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock...  
We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and e...  
We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in th...  
We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.  
Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are...  
Words are the small change of thought.  
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous i...