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“Things of greatest profit are set forth with least price. Where the wine is neat there needeth no live blush.”

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John Lyly, born in 1553, was an influential English writer of the Renaissance period. Known for his plays and prose, he is considered one of the pioneers of English drama. more

“The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he should set about to achieve, but just what to do with life? The answer, that he should order his life so that he can find the greatest happiness in it, is more a practical question, similar to that of how a man should spend his weekend, then a metaphysical proposition as to what is the mystic purpose of his life in the scheme of the universe.”

Men World Should Faces Purpose Order Universe Born Answers Achieve This World Every Man Practicals Weekend Schemes Propositions Metaphysical Mystic

Book:Lin Yutang - The Importance Of Living

Source: Lin Yutang - The Importance Of Living

“Everything that we think God has in his mind necessarily proceeds from our own mind; it is what we imagine to be in God's mind, and it is really difficult for human intelligence to guess at a divine intelligence. What we usually end up with by this sort of reasoning is to make God the color-sergeant of our army and to make Him as chauvinistic as ourselves.”

Thinking Mind Humans Ends Religion Difficult Imagine Divine Color Army Reasoning Human Intelligence Sergeants

Book:The Importance of Living

Source: The Importance of Living

“Any good practical philosophy must start out with the recognition of our having a body.”

Philosophy Body Society Practicals Recognition

Book:The Importance of Living

Source: The Importance of Living

“There is no such thing as real happiness in life. The justest definition that was ever given of it was "a tranquil acquiescence under an agreeable delusion"--I forget where.”

Real Given Forget Illusion Definitions Delusion Life Happiness Tranquil Real Happiness Acquiescence

Book:The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author

“I was 26 when I invented the wrap dress. It was just a nothing little printed dress made out an jersey, and before I know it, I lived an American Dream making more than 25,000 dresses a week.”

Knows Littles Made Dream Week Dresses American Dream Wraps Jersey Printed

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“The improbability of a malicious story serves but to help forward the currency of it, because it increases the scandal. So that, in such instances, the world is like the pious St. Austin, who said he believed some things because they were absurd and impossible.”

World Said Helping Stories Impossible Increase Absurd Instance Currency Scandal Pious Malicious Austin Improbability

Book:The works of Laurence Sterne, with a life of the author, written by himself

Source: The works of Laurence Sterne, with a life of the author, written by himself

“And the Sabbath bell, That over wood and wild and mountain dell Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy With sounds most musical, most melancholy.”

Sound Mountain Musical Woods Wander Melancholy Bells Chasing Sabbath Dell

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“I came to the place of my birth and cried: "The friends of my youth, where are they?"--and an echo answered, "Where are they?”

Youth Birth Cried Echoes Arabian

Book:The complete poetical works of Samuel Rogers: with a biographical sketch, and notes

Source: The complete poetical works of Samuel Rogers: with a biographical sketch, and notes

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