The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.
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There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.Booth Tarkington
Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously
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For the first time she was vaguely perceiving that life is everlasting movement.
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So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
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Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them.
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But her correctness was of the finer sort, and had no air of being studied or achieved conduct would never offer her a problem to be settled from a book of rules, for the rules were so deep within her that she was unconscious of them.
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