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I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
William Lyon Phelps
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William Lyon Phelps
Age: 78 †
Born: 1865
Born: January 2
Died: 1943
Died: August 21
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New Haven
Connecticut
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You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.
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Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient but it enriches personality, increases the wealth of the mind, and hence brings happiness. It is the finest insurance against old age, against the growth of physical disability, of the lack and loss of animal delights.
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The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage.
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A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.
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I believe a knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without a Bible.
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Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.
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In the whole story of Jesus Christ, the most important event is the resurrection.
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Never try to outsmart a woman, unless you are another woman.
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Life, with all it's sorrows, cares, perplexities and heart-breaks, is more interesting than bovine placidity, hence more desirable. The more interesting it is, the happier it is.
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Real happiness is not dependent on external things. The pond is fed from within. The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions. You must cultivate your mind if you wish to achieve enduring happiness.
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A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.
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If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care the happiest, individual would not be either a man or a woman it it would be, I think a cow.
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You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.
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The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.
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The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
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Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.
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