“Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.”
Norman Douglas
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“One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.”
Norman Douglas
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“Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.”
Norman Douglas
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“They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.”
Norman Douglas
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“It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.”
Norman Douglas
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“Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.”
Norman Douglas
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“To find a friend one must close one eye — to keep him, two.”
Norman Douglas
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“You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.”
Norman Douglas
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