#ect

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation. ↗

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#gives #seldom #selects #translation #true

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#chosen #enjoyable #few #friends #good

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#catalyst #choosing #direction #effectively #emotional

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective. ↗

— Alexander Alekhine

#first #first of all #objective #teaches #you

I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties. ↗

— Alexander Alekhine

#bad #combination #conjure #could #dangerous

I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination. ↗

— Scott Adams

#hallucination #i #invitation #join #respectfully

Technology will definitely solve all our problems, but in the process it will create brand new ones. But that's O.K. because the most you can expect from life is to get to solve better and better problems. ↗

— Scott Adams

#better #brand #brand new #create #definitely

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#companions #conversation #enjoyment #few #first

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#communicate #concealed #critic #discover #dwell

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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