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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

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We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

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I hate middle age. Too young for the bowling green, too old for Ecstasy.

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Adventure must be held in delicate fingers. It should be handled, not embraced. It should be sipped, not swallowed at a gulp.

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To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.

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Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.

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Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.

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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.

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To be an adult is to be alone.

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He who neglects to drink from the spring of experience is likely to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance.

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