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Everyone is the moon, there is always a dark side that is never seen by others.

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Sometimes reality is more absurd than fiction, because fiction is based on a certain logic, while reality often has no logic at all.

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"Principle" is another name for "bias."

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The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

The only way to stay healthy is to eat what you don't want to eat, drink what you don't want to drink, and do things you don't want to do.

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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

Whenever you find yourself siding with the majority, it's time to stop and reflect.

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

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Wrinkles only indicate where a smile once was.

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The violet leaves its scent on the ankle that crushes it; that is forgiveness.

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Always work as if you don't need the money, always love as if you have never been hurt, always dance as if no one is watching you, always live as if you are in heaven.

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Don't tell the truth to people who don't deserve it.

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Comedy is tragedy plus time.

Humor is tragedy plus time.

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A person's most dangerous enemy is his own mouth.

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Don't give up your fantasy. When the fantasy is gone, you can still survive, but you are dead while you are alive.

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Don't give up your fantasy. When the fantasy is gone, you can still survive, but you are dead while you are alive.

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Do something every day that you don't want to do. This is a most valuable rule, which can help you develop the habit of doing your job conscientiously and without feeling pain.

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Even if you keep your mouth shut and look like a fool, it is better than opening your mouth and letting others confirm that you are a fool.

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Humans are the only animals that blush, or the only animals that should blush.

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Stay away from people who try to make you lose your ambition. Small people always do that, but truly great people make you feel that you can be great, too.

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Traveling is the best way to eliminate ignorance and hatred.

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The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why you were born.

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When you stand on the side of the majority, you should think about whether you are wrong.

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If you adopt a hungry, miserable dog and keep it comfortable and well-behaved, it will not bite you. This is the main difference between a person and a dog.

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The strong look down on difficulties, while the weak look up to difficulties.

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When I was 7 years old, I felt that my father was the smartest person in the world; when I was 14 years old, I felt that my father was the most unreasonable person in the world; when I was 21 years old, I suddenly discovered that my father was still very smart.

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Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then fight back at you.

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The human mind is amazing. As long as you focus on a certain cause, you will achieve results that will surprise yourself.

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Good breeding consists in concealing our better opinion of ourselves, and concealing our worse opinion of others.

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Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

Of all animals, only humans are cruel. They are the only ones who find pleasure in inflicting pain.

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I never let going to school get in the way of my studies.

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“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”

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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

If your friends start complimenting you on how young you look, that's a sure sign that you're getting older.

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Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Anger is an acid that does more damage to the container in which it is stored than it does to anything that comes into contact with it.

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What gets us into trouble is not ignorance, but false statements that seem correct.

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Everyone is a moon,and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody

Everyone is like the moon, unwilling to let others see their dark side.

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When you fish for love, use your heart as bait, not your head.

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“Classic” A book which people praise and don't read. -Mark Twain

A "classic" is a book that everyone praises but is reluctant to read.

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Always tell the truth, and you never have to remember what you said.

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True friends, good books and a good conscience—this is the ideal life.

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We should try our best to live our lives well, so that when we die, even the owner of the funeral home will feel sorry for us.

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Whenever you find yourself siding with the majority, it's time to stop and reflect.

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What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know.It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.

It is not ignorance that gets us into trouble, but false assumptions that seem correct.

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He felt like a man who joyfully jumped to see a rainbow, only to be struck by lightning.

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

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Every line of latitude thinks it can become the equator if it gets the right.

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If I were born eighty years old and grew up to be eighteen years old, my life would be much happier.

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Habits are habits, no one can throw them out of the window, they can only be led down the stairs step by step.

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Don’t complain that the world owes you a good life. The world owes you nothing. It arrived there before you.

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If you can't get a compliment from someone else, give yourself one.

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Humor is a saving force.

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If all men are rich, then all men are poor.

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A soul full of meanness, pockets full of plunder, a mouth full of lies

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History will not repeat itself, but it will always be strikingly similar.

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In a political society, it is those in power who decide what justice is. That is to say, those in power have the privilege to create justice at will - and the privilege to abolish justice.

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The truth is stranger than fiction.

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Twenty years from now, you will be disappointed not by the things you did, but by the things you didn’t do, so untie the ropes, leave the safe harbor, and set sail. Explore, dream, and discover!

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Money is a good servant if you know how to use it, but it becomes your master if you don't.

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Public opinion has a formidable power, but it is created by a group of ignorant, complacent fools. I know hundreds of journalists, most of whom have no personal opinion worth anything, but when they speak in newspapers, it becomes the opinion of the newspapers, and their words become thunderous prophecies that shake the society.

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You may dress casually when necessary, but your inner beauty must be kept clean.

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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

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Don't part with your illusions, When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. -Mark Twain.Don't part with your illusions, When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. -Mark Twain.

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In the first half of life, we have the ability to enjoy but not the opportunity to do so; in the second half of life, we have the opportunity to enjoy but not the ability to do so.

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The most tragic thing is to be young and pessimistic

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Of all fragile things, the most fragile is morality that has not been tested in the fire.

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Life is so short that we don't have time to quarrel, apologize, feel sad, or care about trivial matters. We only have time to love, and everything is fleeting.

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While living in the world, we must make good use of our situations and never waste time or worry about useless things.

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A fulfilling life does not depend entirely on all the things we encounter and the facts, but on the storm of thoughts that always sweep through our minds.

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You can deal with sadness on your own, but to fully experience joy, you must share it with someone.

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You can be slovenly in your clothes, but you must not let your soul be tainted

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Kindness is a universal language that can be felt by the blind and smelled by the deaf.

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The truth is our most precious thing. Let us use it sparingly.

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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Be careful when reading books on health care, as a printing error might cost you your life.

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Fanatical desires will lead to dangerous actions and absurd things.

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When love comes, you can neither argue with it nor bargain with it.

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You are as weak as water. People will soon discover that. They won't have to work too hard to see that you are spineless. They can treat you like a slave.

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To break your heart, it would take cooperation between your enemy and your friend, one to slander you and the other to tell you the news.

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The two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why.

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When people abandon reason, they will be controlled by emotions, and fragile emotions will overflow and become uncontrollable, like a ship accidentally sailing into the deep sea and finding an anchor.

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They are all speaking and expressing their thoughts, but some people get into trouble while others win applause. This is the philosophy of expression.

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In the field of humor, repetition is very powerful. Almost any idiomatic expression with exact and unchanging wording, if repeated solemnly five or six times at regular intervals, will eventually cause people to laugh.

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You will naturally be more careful about things you don't understand, and the troubles that come to you are caused by things you think you understand.

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Courage is not the absence of fear, but the ability to resist and control fear.

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There was once a greeting that was so beautiful and precious as gold: "As you climb the mountain of wealth, I hope you will meet a friend."

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God created Mauritius first, and then created heaven based on the scenery of Mauritius.

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The end of patience is heaven.

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Being naughty is because of the innocence in the heart, being rebellious is because of the desire for freedom, and being adventurous is because the brave heart does not want to stop. Being naughty, rebellious, and adventurous are the wealth that growth gives us. I use words to record this youthful frivolity and childishness.

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Beauty and charm are two fatal things. Fortunately, not all beautiful women are charming. Often, women with ordinary looks have a different kind of charm.

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Disrespecting the gods that others believe in is truly disrespectful.

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"Fame" is like vapor, "reputation" is like an accident, and the only certain thing on earth is to be forgotten.

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The secret to getting ahead is getting started.

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Great wealth is a poison to the man who is not accustomed to handle money. It invades the flesh and marrow of his character.

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The biggest difference between cats and lies is that cats have nine lives

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Before someone comes up with a new idea, people always say he has a wild idea.

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Freed from the yoke of slavery and crime, from vulgarity and barbarism, life becomes alive.

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People always say that someone who comes up with a new idea is a dreamer until his idea succeeds.

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Hope is like a family. Without it, you will feel life is boring; with it, you will feel that working hard for it every day is a trouble.

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The human mind is amazing. As long as you focus on a certain cause, you will achieve results that will surprise yourself.

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Happiness is not a thing that exists in itself, it is merely a contrast to other unhappy things, and that is the whole situation of happiness.

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He had discovered, without knowing it, a great law of human action--namely, that in order to make a man or a child desire something very much, it is only necessary to make that thing difficult to obtain.

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The children were sent to school, which was at least a school at that time, where the weak young generation worked hard for ten hours every day, learning useless things from books that they did not understand, relying on rote learning, like parrots; so that the only results of their education were two things: a permanent headache and the ability to read - reading fluently without stopping to spell or breathe.

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A strange, vain, disgusting woman! I don't think I could like her unless I were on a raft in the middle of the ocean with no other food.

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Of all animals, humans are the cruelest and the only ones who create happiness from pain. - Mark Twain

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Always admit a mistake honestly and often; this will catch your boss off guard and give you the opportunity to make more mistakes.

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When faced with a desperate situation of life and death, human nature is completely exposed before everyone's eyes. The bloody scene of cannibalism blatantly shows the animal side of human beings, which makes people reflect.

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A man needs money only when he is young and feels that everything in the world is alive and interesting. Why doesn't God reverse the usual process and let most people first acquire wealth, spend it slowly, and then let them die a pauper when they no longer need money?

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A good compliment is enough to keep me company for two months

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To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

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The words we are proud of are not actually from ourselves. What belongs to us is nothing more than some modifications made according to our temperament, character, environment, education and social relations. It is only these modifications that distinguish them from the expressions of others, leave the imprint of our unique style, and temporarily count them as our own. Everything else is just old stuff, just clichés said by generations of people for thousands of years and hundreds of years.

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I think everyone I know has morals, although I don't like to ask. I know I have them. But I would rather teach others about morality every day than practice it myself. "Leave morality to others", this is my motto. Once you give away morality, you will never need it again.

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Anything that a person has to do is called "work"; anything that a person does not have to do is called "entertainment".

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Truth is stranger than fiction, because fiction is about possibility, but truth is not limited by this.

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"Need" does not know any "law".

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

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Traveling with someone is the best way to find out whether you like or hate that person.

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Great wealth has sufficient allure to surely and fatally lead astray those whose moral foundations are not strong.

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Human beings have one truly effective weapon, and that is laughter.

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A person's most dangerous enemy is his own mouth.

The deadly enemy of a man, his own tongue....

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History does not repeat itself, it just rhymes.

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Every man is born with one asset which is worth more than all his other assets: his last breath.

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Get your facts first, then you can distort and misinterpret them as you please.

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He who does not read good books has no more advantage than he who cannot read.

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Don't argue with a fool, he will pull you down to his level and then beat you with his wealth of experience.

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Why you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?

Why are you sitting here like an unaddressed envelope?

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As soon as false humility appears, true humility will disappear in time.

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If you adopt a starving dog and feed it until it is fat, it will never bite you. This is the main difference between humans and dogs.

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"Time flies, life is short, don't waste it on quarrels, apologies, sadness and blame. Use your time to love, even if it's only a moment, don't waste it."

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When a person reads the Bible, he is less amazed at what he knows about God than at what he does not know.

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Adam is the luckiest man in the world because he has no mother-in-law.

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The only way to stay healthy is to eat what you don't want to eat, drink what you don't like to drink, and do what you don't want to do.

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I would rather be an outlaw in Shepherd's Forest for a year than be President of the United States for a lifetime.

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India has two million gods and they worship all of them. In religion other countries are poor and India is the only "millionaire".

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There are two times in a man's life when he should not take speculative risks: one is when he has the capital to speculate, and the other is when he cannot afford it.

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Desire and attraction can disappear at any time

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A fly alighted on the back of the chair in front of him, and rubbed its hands leisurely, stretched out its arms to hold its head, and rubbed it so hard that its head seemed almost to be separated from its body, and its neck, like a thin thread, was clearly visible; it also moved its wings with its hind legs and gently touched them to its body as if they were the back of a dress. It was doing this whole set of dressing up in a carefree manner, as if it knew that it was absolutely safe.

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Wherever she is, it is the Garden of Eden.

  • Adam

I don’t love him for his thoughtfulness;

I don’t love him for his singing;

I don’t love him for his intelligence;

It is not for his chivalry that I love him;

I love him not because of his hard work;

I love him not because of his upbringing.

So, why do I love him?

I think, just because he is a man!

--Eve

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The main component of life is not facts and events, but the storm of thought which blows through the human brain all the life long.

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What troubles you is not what you don't know, but what you are sure of but is not true.

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Every wrinkle is proof that you once smiled

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Women spend their whole lives searching for the most beautiful piece of clothing among thousands of pieces of fashion, but they forget that the most beautiful clothes are actually their bodies and skin.

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It doesn't matter if you come across as stupid. Such traits can make for a lifelong friendship - as long as you don't ask the other person to borrow money.

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Perhaps it is because women lack the spirit of adventure that they are not as interested in stock speculation and mining as men. Women only become interested in gambling activities when they are depressed.

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A loud voice doesn't prove anything; a hen that lays a single egg will often cluck as if she's laid an asteroid.

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You can find a reason to make yourself sad, and you can also find a reason to make yourself happy.

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The violet leaves its scent on the ankle that crushes it; that is forgiveness.

Violet leaves its scent on those feet that stepping on it,and that's the meaning of forgiveness.

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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

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When politicians handle state affairs, they often consider whether it is in accordance with etiquette, but never care whether it is in accordance with moral standards.

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But I thought, I'll have to get ready to run away before anybody else does, because Aunt Sally wants me to live with her. I'll have to sleep in a bed, wear clean clothes, and learn to be well behaved, and I can't do that again. I've tried it once.

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Once Mark Twain was invited to a banquet. During the banquet, he said to a noble lady, "Madam, you are so beautiful!" Unexpectedly, the lady said, "Sir, I am sorry that I cannot answer you in the same way." Mark Twain, who was smart and sharp-tongued, smiled and replied, "That doesn't matter. You can also tell lies like me."

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Time went on and winter came.

Time passed and winter came.

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Prediction is the only human skill that cannot be improved through practice.

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Lies are already running around the world before truth has even put on its boots.

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Kindness is a language that the deaf can understand and the blind can see.

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The crowd pushed her away, and when she was almost out of sight, she turned around and took one last look at him. She was so aggrieved and sad, and he suddenly felt ashamed. His pride and complacency turned to ashes, and the stolen imperial majesty also withered and faded. The glory before him suddenly became worthless and fell off his body like a rag.

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Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.

Give every day a chance to be the best day of your life.

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It is easier to fool people than to make them believe they have been fooled.

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Anyone who has not eaten bread with tears does not know what life is.

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That's what you mean humans are like - always lying, always thinking you have virtues you don't really have, and denying them to the higher animals. The beasts never do anything cruel - that's the domain of the moral animals. A beast causes pain to others unintentionally, and there's nothing wrong with that, because there's nothing "wrong" about it, and it doesn't cause pain to others for pleasure - only humans do that. It's inspired by the messy morality of humans.

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When you fish for love, use your heart as bait, not your head.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

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A malicious book will hurt no one except the fool who wrote it.

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Longfellow: The secret source of humor is not joy but sadness. There is no humor in heaven.

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Like the moon, everyone has a dark side that is invisible to outsiders.

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If a man has a teaspoon of brains, he will have a dose of pride.

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Since I was forty, I have been very regular in my bedtimes and my waking hours - this is a very important thing. I have made it a rule to go to bed when no one is around, and another rule to get up when I have to. This has created an unshakable, irregular routine. This routine has helped me live longer, but it has hurt others.

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Morality is an acquisition - like music, like foreign languages, like piety and paralysis - and no one is born with it.

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He looked and acted like a big grey spider, gazing with complacency at a tiny insect that had the misfortune of being caught in his web.

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They were born without thinking--they were born without the care of the world. They were people without status--without virtue--without education, without brains, without talent--and in the muddle of their lives there was always a peace beyond all expectation.

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But the worst thing is that you men don't want to give girls an education that can make a difference, and don't want to let them earn a decent living through their own efforts. They are educated just to show off, as if they should only be loved and cared for all their lives, rely on men for food, and never suffer misfortune.

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Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

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When I was 14, I couldn't stand my father, he was so stupid. But when I was 21, I was amazed at how smart he became in seven years!

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Some of my admirers often say that my head is almost as big as a basket, but they refuse to tell you the dimensions of the basket.

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When you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to stop and reflect.

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