Fights you on patriotic principles he robs you on business principles he enslaves you on imperial principles.
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Zum Autor"You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?"
"The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired."
"When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one and do without change."
"Youth is wasted on the young."
"Old-fashioned people think you can have a soul without money. They think the less money you have, the more soul you have. Young people nowadays know better. A soul is a very expensive thing to keep: much more so than a motor car."
"Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad."