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Conventionality is not morality.


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There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.



Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.



Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.



If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!

If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!



I would always rather be happy than dignified.

I would always rather be happy than dignified.



It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.

It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.



It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.

It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.



And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.

And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.



Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.

Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.



You are human and fallible.

You are human and fallible.





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To make something, you have to work within your abilities. Honestly assess what you can do and even more important, what can't you do.

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The modern athlete is an individual corporation. I'm not quite sure it's very good for sport, or good for team work, or those different things that sport says it's about. This is about business.

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I must make a choice every time I speak a sentence in English. I try to choose the happier way of saying things, so that my own words will not weigh me down like stones.

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