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«The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change, for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up»
«The art of being a woman can never consist of being a bad imitation of a man»
Author: Olga Knopf | Keywords: consist, imitation
«Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.»
«Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.»
«Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of strong passions, or with very vigorous faculties.»
«The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work. Many of those who fail most ignominiously do enough to achieve grand success but they labor haphazardly at whatever they are assigned, building up with one hand to tear down with the other. They do not grasp circumstances and change them into opportunities. They have no faculty for turning honest defeats into telling victories. With ability enough and ample time, the major ingredients of success, they are forever throwing back and forth an empty shuttle and the real web of their life is never woven.»
«The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.»
«Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.»
«Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them»
«Poverty consist in feeling poor.»

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