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- If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.
- Lin Yutang
- Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish fill the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. I cannot count one. I know not the first letter of the alphabet. I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
- Alan Watts
- The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- The liar's punishment ... is that he cannot believe anyone else.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- All professions are conspiracies against the laity.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- He who has never hoped can never despair.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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