"You can't be a rascal for 40 years and then cop a plea the last minute. God keeps better books than that."

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“Faith is a wonderful thing, but doubt gets you an education.”

“Tell 'em to count to ten over him and he'll get up.”

“Florida was invented for Addison Mizner's little brother.”

“The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.”

“A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.”

“A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.”

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"I consist of a little body and a soul."

— Marcus Aurelius

Philosophy

#religion

"Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, — by deeds, not years..."

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Literature1751–1816

#time

"One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better."

— Larry Niven

Literature1938

#writing

"No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it."

— Richard Bach

Literature1936

#life