If you're going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.

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The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.

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Anybody who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.

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Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

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Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.

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You can understand and relate to most people better if you look at them - no matter how old or impressive they may be - as if they are children. For most of us never really grow up or mature all that much - we simply grow taller. O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.

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A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

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The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.

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Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.

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People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.

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