It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
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Reading   
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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
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Experience   
Mistakes   
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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Journalism   
Reading   
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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
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Life   
Just   
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
Subject:
Intellect   
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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
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Wealth   
Soul   
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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
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Humor   
England   
English   
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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.
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Choice   
Poetry   
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If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
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Humor   
Music   
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Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
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Music   
Art   
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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
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Past   
Judgment   
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Biography lends to death a new terror.
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Death   
Opinions   
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Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
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Beauty   
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America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
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Discovery   
America   
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To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.
Subject:
Miscellaneous   
Opinions   
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Subject:
Common Sense   
Mistakes   
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To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
Subject:
Life   
Experience   
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Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
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Experience   
Effort   
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Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Subject:
Life   
Art   
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Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
Subject:
Life   
Simplicity   
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