We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.
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The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? Were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? Did you mistake eleven for ten? Were you too late to dress? And did you sit up beyond the usual hour? If a novel produces these effects, it is good; if it does not -- story, language, love, scandal itself cannot save it. It is only meant to please; and it must do that or it does nothing.
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.. The pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
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Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, andwhatever days fortune will give, count themas profit.
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I want a simple, ordinary life... Like humans enjoy.
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You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times.
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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
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To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, the luxuries of electricity, indoor plumbing, central heating, instant electronic communication and such, have taught me to relearn and enjoy the basic human satisfactions of dipping water from a cold clear mountain stream; of building a wood fire in a cast-iron stove; of using long winter nights for making music, making things, making love; of writing long letters, in longhand with a fountain pen, to the few people on this earth I truly care about.
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[Walking] is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If you go to a place on anything but your own feet you are taken there too fast, and miss a thousand delicate joys that were waiting for you by the wayside.
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A hobby is labor disguising itself as leisure. It is extremely destructive to the boundaries of private life.
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Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.
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Boredom is the price one pays for not enjoying everything.
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But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.
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Life's a climb. But the view is great.
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They are not long, the days of wine and roses. Out of a misty dream, our path emerges for a while, then closes, within a dream.
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When Americans say it was great, I know it was good. When they say it was good, I know it was okay. When they say it was okay, I know it was bad.
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