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Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf. ↗

— William James

#behalf #caution #certain #errors #excessive

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them. ↗

— William James

#challenges #credit #fact #in fact #just

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it. ↗

— William James

#attain #care #certainly #enough #most

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling. ↗

— William James

#both sides #bring #closer #communion #demon

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

#blunder #crime #despised #easy #enough

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#idling #impossible #plenty #thoroughly #unless

If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#enough #foolish #grumble #rest #show

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks. ↗

— St. Jerome

#friendship #never #ought #thinks #true

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night. ↗