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In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start. ↗

— William James

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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause. ↗

— William James

#bad #bad one #between #cause #choice

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. ↗

— William James

#cold #criticisms #crushed #dry #due

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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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

#cheaper #clear #clear conscience #conscience #contented

The weather is like the government, always in the wrong. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#government #like #weather #wrong

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

Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear. ↗

— 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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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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