Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. Never Give In!
The gentleman lolling back in the chaise was neither dashingly handsome nor yet unbearably ugly, neither too stout nor yet too thin; it could not be claimed he was old but he was no stripling, either. His arrival in the town created no stir and was not marked by anything out of the ordinary. Dead Souls
The art of life is more like the wrestler's art than the dancer's, in respect of this, that it should stand ready and firm to meet onsets which are sudden and unexpected. Book VII
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. The Decay of Lying
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