Intellectual 'work' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward. The poorest paid architect, engineer, general, author, sculptor, painter, lecturer, advocate, legislator, actor, preacher, singer, is constructively in heaven when he is at work; and as for the magician with the fiddle-bow in his hand, who sits in the midst of a great orchestra with the ebbing and flowing tides of divine sound washing over him - why, certainly he is at work, if you wish to call it that, but lord, it's a sarcasm just the same. The law of work does seem utterly unfair - but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash also.
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Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.
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The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
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Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.
Mark TwainIt is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
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I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
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But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
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In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
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