South Wind
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“The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery.”
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“It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.”
Source: Alone
“A man who is stingy with saffron is capable of seducing his own grandmother.”
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“Learn to foster an ardent imagination; so shall you descry beauty which others passed unheeded.”
Source: Paneros, Some Words on Aphrodisiacs and the Like
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“No great man is ever born too soon or too late.”
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“No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble.”
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“If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.”
“Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?”
Source: Three of them
“You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.”
“How often could things be remedied by a word. How often is it left unspoken.”
“The secret of happiness is curiosity”
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“It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.”
Source: Siren Land: And Fountains in the Sand
“To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him...two.”
“Wine is a precarious aphrodisiac, and its fumes have blighted many a mating.”
Source: Paneros, Some Words on Aphrodisiacs and the Like
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“One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.”
“Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest.”
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“Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.”
Source: Alone
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Source: A Selection from His Works
“They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.”
“The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.”
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“There is so much goodness in real life- do let us keep it out of our books.”
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“The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit.”
Source: Alone
“The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.”
Source: Alone
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