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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

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

— William James

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We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. ↗

— William James

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Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state. ↗

— William James

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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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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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Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life. ↗

— St. Jerome

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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies! ↗

— St. Jerome

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Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law. ↗

— St. Jerome

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Obviously, some people are thick, and they're not gonna see what they don't want to see. ↗

— Joan Jett

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