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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The world still consists of two clearly divided groups: the English and the foreigners. One group consists of less than 50 million people; the other of 3,950 million. The latter group does not really count. ↗

— George Mikes

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Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants. ↗

— Robert Millikan

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Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. ↗

— Lin Yutang

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A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

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The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone. ↗

— Pope John XXIII

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. ↗

— Mark Twain

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Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. ↗

— John Updike

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