The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
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The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.
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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
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There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
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The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
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