"To be an ideal guest, stay at home."
-E. W. Howe
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"The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it."
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"A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around."
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"When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck."
-E. W. Howe
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"One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself."
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"A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country."
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"When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits."
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"I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it because it's very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you don't feel like you want to be alive, so I don't like to get all quiet."
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"What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy."
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"So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb."
-Alastair Campbell
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"I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted."
-Fiona Shaw
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"Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death."
-John Thorn
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