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" But paying is part of the game of life: it is the joy of buying that we crave. "
Joy
Life
Part
" Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry. "
Circumstances
Worry
Work
" Every shot that kills ricochets. "
Every
Shot
" For when a child is born the mother also is born again. "
Child
Mother's Day
Born
" He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever. "
Him
Goal
Light
" He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech. "
He
Evil
Speech
" Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love. "
Passes
Root
Love
" In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind. "
End
Beautiful
Mind
" It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur. "
Pride
Broken
Broken Heart
" It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them. "
Two
Find
Sea
" It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be. "
Think
Trying
People
" Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars. "
Love
Hath
Eyes
" Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living. "
Life
Morning
Man
" Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy. "
Memory
Enemy
Friend
" Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose. "
Law
You
Win Or Lose
" She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good. "
Women
Never
Good
" The real business of life is trying to understand each other. "
Real
Business
Trying
" There is no influence like the influence of habit. "
Habit
Like
Influence
" There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance. "
Us
World
Memory
" There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted. "
Doing
Credit
You
" Tomorrow is no man's gift. "
Tomorrow
Future
Gift
" War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle. "
War
Make
Gentle
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