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Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exqui

Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face. – Sydney Smith

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He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again. – Sydney Smith

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Carpe Diem
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In the country I always fear that creation will expire before tea-time. – Sydney Smith

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Tea
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Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. – Sydney Smith

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Happiness
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The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist. – T.H. Huxley, “Evolution and Ethics,” 1893

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Humankind

Man — a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal. – Alexander Hamilton

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Humankind

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. – Henry Miller, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, 1945

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Humankind

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Humankind

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A precedent embalms a principle. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution? – Rand Paul

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Fear

He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie. – Anaïs Nin

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Daydreaming

No matter how you hurry, you will notice at the end of the day that you traveled at the speed of time. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Haste