“Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.”
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If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter second, telling other people to do so.
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.