- Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.
- If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own.
- Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.
- Dog. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
- Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
- What lies behind us, and what lies before us, are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality.
- If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance.
- I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.
- Some people prefer to keep their foot in a bog so they don't risk falling over.
- Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
- The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
- Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.
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