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The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavor so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind

True basis Morality Utility The adaptation
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A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
Book Container Idea Inside
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Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

Anxiety Conscience Parent Soul
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I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.

I read Can live One life One place
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I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.

Beginning Think How much Love someone
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It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

Very difficult Live Among people You love
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I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get

Never Believed One chance I get
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One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that people will never know about.

Sad thing This world The acts Take
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People always call it luck when you’ve acted more sensibly than they have.

People Always call Luck Acted
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Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.

A woman Who discovered Had turned wrong person
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It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.

Struck her Dealing Human beings Awful lot
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When you have children, you're obligated to live.

Have children You're obligated To live
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Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

Nothing Matter Life Death
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He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.

He wished Inhabited Life Better
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Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying.

Bravest thing About people Loving Mortal beings
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To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.

Hopes Future Consign Hypothesis
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But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.

You never Did anything Couldn't undo End up
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There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got.

True life End up Just do The best
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Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

Language Power Life Instrument
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But it has occurred to me, on occasion, that our memories of our loved ones might not be the point. Maybe the point is their memories,all that they take away with them.

On occasion Our memories Loved ones The point
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The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.

Very thing Attracts you Someone Putting
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No couple buying wedding rings wants to be reminded that someday one of them will have to accept the other one's ring from a nurse or an undertaker.

No couple Buying wedding rings Be reminded To accept
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Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

Authority Wisdom Like Edge
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And she thought what a clean, simple life she would have led if it weren't for love.

She thought A clean Simple life Have led
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It makes you wonder why we bother accumulating, accumulating, when we know from earliest childhood how it’s all going to end.

It make You wonder Bother accumulating We know
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Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.

Wisdom Inheritance Good Without
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I write because I want to have more than one life.

I write Want to Have more One life
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She collected and polished resentments as if it were some kind of hobby.

She collected Polished resentments Some kind Hobby
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That when we live no more, We may live ever
That We Live No more
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I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much for reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life

Was born The impression What happened In books
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My love is such that rivers cannot quench

My Love Rivers Cannot
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Why wasn't there an etiquette book for runaway wives?

Etiquette book Runaway wives
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Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.

Sweet Words Honey Refresh
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Past is past,no it's not! People are always fond of saying that, but what's past is never past; not entirely.

Past People Always fond Saying that
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Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
Youth Time Getting Age
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I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much more reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life.

Was born The impression What happened In books
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Sometimes he fantasied that at the end of his life, he would be shown a home movie of all the roads he had not taken, and where they would have led.

Sometimes Fantasied The end His life
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If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.

If Do Prove Advance
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A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.

Prosperous State Makes Secure
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The trouble with dying is you don't get to stay around and see how everything turns out.

The trouble With dying Is you How everything
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Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.

Fire Force Abated Anger
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As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.

Love Be concealed Small cough Small love
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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

If Pleasant Taste Adversity
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Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.

Watch out Knows nothing Leaves you Hanging
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Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

Your ear Down close Your soul Listen hard
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I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold.

I Prize Love More than
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I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.

Stuffing Your mouth Your promises Watching you
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I am alone here in my own mind. There is no map and there is no road. It is one of a kind just as yours is.

M alone Own mind No map No road
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Live or die, but don't poison everything.

Live Die Don't poison Everything
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Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.

My books Anoint me Few friends Reach
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