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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Simpan ketakutan Anda untuk diri sendiri, tetapi bagikan keberanian Anda dengan orang lain.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Pernikahan adalah satu percakapan yang panjang, dipenuhi oleh perselisihan.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Pernikahan itu seperti kehidupan - ini adalah medan pertempuran, bukan tempat tidur mawar.

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

Ada persekutuan yang lebih tenang bahkan dari kesendirian, dan yang, jika dipahami dengan benar, adalah kesunyian yang dibuat dengan sempurna.

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

Jangan pernah menilai hari-hari dari panen yang Anda tuai, tapi dari benih yang Anda tanamkan.

Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.