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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.

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I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.

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Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.

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We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.

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A smiling face is half the meal.

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Frugality without creativity is deprivation.

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Gluttony is not a secret vice.

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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

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