“There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.”
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.
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It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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