To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

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Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

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The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

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I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.

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Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.

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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

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Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

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