The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Love truth, and pardon error.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
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