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He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty

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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Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life let us swear eternal friendship. – Sydney Smith

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Friendship
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The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well-kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor keep the fasts. – Sydney Smith

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Fasting
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Other Quotes from
Carpe Diem
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The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked. – Tillie Olsen, Tell Me a Riddle

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Carpe Diem

Let us endeavor to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. – Mark Twain

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Carpe Diem

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Carpe Diem

You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted. – Ruth E. Renkl

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Carpe Diem

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My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding kind. If youre fortunate – and both of us are – you come from the kidding kind of Irish family. – P. J. ORourke

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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense. – e. e. cummings

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I can sing and dance. I can smile – a lot. – Chris Colfer

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Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1834

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