When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?

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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

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Happiness is a direction, not a place.

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Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

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The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

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The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.

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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

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The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.

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History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

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Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

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