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It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.


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JOSEPH ADDISON I remember staying to look at it for a long time, as one would linger within reach of a consoling wh...
JOSEPH CONRAD Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
JOSEPH CONRAD Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
JOSEPH BARTH It is worse than a crime: it is a mistake.
JOSEPH FOUCHE The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
JOSEPH JOUBERT The question that is so clearly in many potential parents minds: Why should we stunt our ambitions a...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The g...
JOSEPH SUGARMAN Anyone who has had an experience of mystery knows that there is a dimension of the universe that is ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL An old Apache storyteller reminds us:

JOSEPH CAMPBELL We are odd compounds full of explosive material to which circumstances may at any time apply a spark...
JOSEPH FARRELL Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to...
JOSEPH CANNON We always plan too much and always think too little.
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and temp...
JOSEPH CONRAD Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!
JOSEPH ROUX Perfection is the child of time.
JOSEPH HALL Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace.
JOSEPH CONRAD There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.
JOSEPH ROUX Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
JOSEPH JOUBERT There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.
JOSEPH JOUBERT