"I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know)."
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The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope
"Nobody fixes things. When they break you throw them away."
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The Variable Man by Philip K. Dick
Continual complexity makes it impossible for any of us to know anything outside our own personal field-I can't follow the work of the man sitting at the next desk over from me. Too much knowledge has piled up in each field. And there's too many fields."
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The Variable Man by Philip K. Dick
No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en;
In brief, sir, study what you most affect.
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The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
Do as adversaries do in law,
Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
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The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
There's small choice in rotten apples.
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The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
My tongue will tell the anger of my heart,
Or else my heart, concealing it, will break.
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The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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Ulysses by James Joyce
Drugs age you after mental excitement. Lethargy then. Why? Reaction. A lifetime in a night. Gradually changes your character.
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Ulysses by James Joyce
Every life is many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.
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Ulysses by James Joyce
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