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As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.
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Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.
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Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter.
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We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
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Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
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Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.
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If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.
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We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.
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In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.
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Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.
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Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.
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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.
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