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The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. ↗

— William James

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price. ↗

— St. Jerome

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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self. ↗

— William James

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I am attracted to the dark side of life! ↗

— Famke Janssen

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

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People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

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A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#loud #loud noise #noise #other #responsibility

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

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I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks. ↗

— St. Jerome

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