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Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the odds, you would have to be quite cavalier about your children's future. ↗

— Mark Helprin

#child #children #course #future #given

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. ↗

— Arthur Helps

#away #barren #fall #ground #kind

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance. ↗

— Arthur Helps

#better #calmness #cosmetics #countenance #graces

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune. ↗

— Arthur Helps

#fortune #happiness #hostage

Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book. ↗

— Arthur Helps

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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success. ↗

— Arthur Helps

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There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#armed #armed men #care #else #enough

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#deal #great #great deal #i #i have learned

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#feast #go #life #lived #lucky