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Life is too transcendentally humorous for a man not to take it seriously. Compared with it, Death is but a shallow jest.
William John Locke
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William John Locke
Age: 67 †
Born: 1863
Born: March 20
Died: 1930
Died: May 15
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Colonial Guyana
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I believe half of the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.
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In France the men all live in cafes, the children are all put out to nurse, and the women, saving the respect of mademoiselle -- well, the less said about them the better.
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As I enter on the path of happiness, I scatter the dregs and shreds and clippings of the past behind me. I divest myself of all the crapulous years.
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Children are the root of all evil.... Happy the man who has his quiver empty.
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No matter through what realms of the fantastic you may travel, you arrive inevitably at the commonplace.
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You have never seen ugliness in a happy face.
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Women are women and can't help themselves.
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Don't be a genius, my son, it isn't good for anybody.
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Men are men and women are women. We've tried for tens of thousands of years to lay down hard and fast lines for the sexes to walk upon, and we've failed miserably.
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Our happiness is made up of the things we miss.
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The only cure for loss of illusions is fresh illusions, more illusions, and always illusions.
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Every man's first declaration of love is bathos--the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence.
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If you love a Dream Woman ... let her stay the divine Woman of the Dream. To awaken and clasp flesh and blood, no matter how delicately tender, and find that love has sped at the dawn is a misery too deep for tears.
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I think love is serious. It's like an invention: sometimes it lies deep down inside you, great and quiet--and at other times it racks you and keeps you from sleeping.
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Have you ever considered what anxious thought, what consummate knowledge of human nature, what dearly-bought experiences go into the making of an advertisement?
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The only remedy against the malady of life is life itself. The bane is its own antidote.
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I hold in my hands the very soul of a man. What more dare a woman ask of the high gods?
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I can tell you how to get what you want: You've just got to keep a thing in view and go for it and never let your eyes wander to right or left or up or down. And looking back is fatal.
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To read of human depravity in the police reports is one thing, to see it fall like a black shadow across one's life is another.
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Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank.
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