“Life's a pudding full of plums;
Care's a canker that benumbs,
Wherefore waste our elocution
On impossible solution?
Life's a pleasant institution,
Let us take it as it comes!”
The tangled Skein.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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During a seminar at Milan’s IULM University, speaking of the haters; as quoted in "Escort for Liliana Segre following insults and threats" https://www.corriere.it/english/19_novembre_07/escort-for-liliana-segre-following-insults-and-threats-2c3dea64-015f-11ea-bfaf-9602a8f3f6c1.shtml, Corriere.it (7 November 2019).
“Wherefore, since nothing but blows will do, for God's sake let us come to a final separation.”
1770s, Common Sense (1776)
From Letters from a Farmer, in Pennsylvania, to the inhabitants of the British Colonies, Letter XII, Dickinson, Philadelphia
Sovereign Maxims
Context: It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and honorably and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and honorably and justly without living pleasantly. Whenever any one of these is lacking, when, for instance, the man is not able to live wisely, though he lives honorably and justly, it is impossible for him to live a pleasant life. (5)
“In life there are certain sores that, like a canker, gnaw at the soul in solitude and diminish it.”
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The Blind Owl
Original: Nella vita, trovare ogni volta la soluzione ad un problema mantiene l’attività intellettuale in piena vitalità.
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“Live and let live, do not judge, take life as it comes and deal with it, everything will be okay.”
Source: A Million Little Pieces