If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism. Lady Windermere's Fan
'Tis as human a little story as paper could well carry. Finnegan's Wake
If happiness lay in bodily pleasures, we would call oxen happy when they find vetch to eat. Fragments
No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. Discourses
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