To sit alone in

To sit alone in
To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.
  

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Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?
If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.
Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.
It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.
Nevermiss a good chance to shut up.
The property of power is to protect.
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If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.
The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!
Neverdoubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change theworld. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.