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" Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake. "
Decision
Mistake
You
" Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking. "
Soul
Ambition
Dead
" A strong foe is better than a weak friend. "
Weak
Friend
Strong
" Every decision you make is a mistake. "
Decision
Mistake
You
" Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien. "
Neglected
Truth
Genius
" Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth. "
Great
Earth
Said
" It takes a long time to understand nothing. "
Long Time
Long
Takes
" Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away. "
Away
Give
He
" Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy. "
Man
Men
People
" Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue. "
Unattractive
Virtue
Become
" So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born. "
Time
Truth
Perfect
" The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists. "
Sex
Always
Spirit
" The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty. "
Understood
Better
Liberty
" The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature. "
Poet
Mimicking
Nature
" The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent. "
Fear
Love
Men
" To write is a humiliation. "
Humiliation
Write
" We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared. "
Precious
Suffer
Die
" We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives. "
Good
Evil
Difficult
" When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels. "
Either
He
Suicide
" Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors. "
Farming
Writing
Ancestors
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