English usage is sometimes more than mere taste judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
I arise in the morning, torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet, the bylaws are shorter and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
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For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim’s time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future.