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Up to your neck in shit and sharks, and still thinking of someone's cold and cutting words...




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In the pharmacopoeia of life, work is the elixir, pleasure the balm.

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The endless questioning of youth is balanced by the endless answering of age.



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Where comparison ends. opportunity begins.

Contradicta








It is good to possess at least a nominal acceptance of reality. It doesn't make life easier, or longer, but it does make it funnier.




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To know what interests oneself is half of success; to know what interests others is all of it.

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Those who insult themselves all day dislike being slighted, the way an accomplished thief hates being caught.




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Just as sorrow covets compassion, vanity craves praise.