Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
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There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.
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It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
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That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.
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Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.
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Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.
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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all.
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All sanity depends on this that is should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.
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