Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and . . . Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.
He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it — namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.
We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.
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