I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of the stupid and curious, especially of newspaper reporters, are always inopportune. I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. They are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours; the hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating.
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A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half of his life.
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Envy and wrath shorten the life. Ecclesiasticus
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If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.
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Envy and wrath shorten the life
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To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.
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Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
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To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.
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Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it!
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