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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck. ↗

— William James

#foot #having #his #keep #long

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

— St. Jerome

#love #love is #price #purchased

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise. ↗

— William James

#between #companionship #joyousness #life #need

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

— William James

#failure #faith #his #human #lack

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

— Jerome K. Jerome

#loud #loud noise #noise #other #responsibility

One we discover how to appreciate the timeless values in our daily experiences, we can enjoy the best things in life. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#best #daily #discover #enjoy #experiences

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

But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

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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

When you're watching Psycho, there' s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you have the intellectual revelation that you're not, and that's where the celebration comes in. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#celebration #comes #intellectual #moment #psycho