"Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid."

-- George Santayana

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“I think of my novels as entertainments.”
“If I had time and a hammer, I'd track down every bootleg copy and smash it.”
“Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you, nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.”

Source : John Boyle O'Reilly (1882). “Songs, Legends and Ballads”
“If your fire begins to flame, don't spray water on it, which most people do. Instead, just close your dampers and the fire will go out because fire must have oxygen.”
“It's difficult for people sometimes to recognise when they're happy. People sometimes seem to me to be afraid to be happy.”
“The sand should be neither coarse nor fine but of a middling quality or about the size of the common pop(p)y seed. If the sand is too coarse the mortar will be short or brittle . . . If the sand is too fine the cement will shrink and crack after it has been used.”
“The unavoidable kiss, where the minty fresh death breath is sure to outlast his catastrophe.”
“Even though sometimes you can control your anger, you can't control your sadness.”

Source : Barbara Park (2011). “The Kid in the Red Jacket”, p.14, Yearling

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