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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
... [He] is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water. But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.
I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people cruel and bitter.
There is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs.
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
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