“There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.”
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This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.
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A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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