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All men come to resemble their fathers. That isn't a tragedy. But you need a hell of a sense of humor to handle it.

A man's bookseller should keep his confidence, like his physician. What can become of a world where every man knows what another man reads? Why, sir, books would become like quacks' potions, with every mountebank in the newspapers claiming one volume's superiority over another.

A wish is a dish that's a lot like a fish: Once it's been eaten it's harder to throw back. - Mr. Rakshasas

May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past.

The living always get over the dead. That’s what the dead never realize. If ever the dead did come back, they’d only have been sore that somehow you managed to get over their dying at all.

To grant all a man's wishes is to take away his dreams and ambitions. Life is only worth living if you have something to strive for. To aim at.

When something needs to be said, you look for a man to say it. But when something needs actually to be done, you look for a woman.

When you get a cat to catch the mice in your kitchen, you can't expect it to ignore the rats in the cellar.

And tell them all about the books you've read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That's an order. You can never read too many books.

Be careful what you wish for," said Groanin. "Not because you'll get it, but because you're doomed not to want it very much when you do.

Tea has nothing to do with being hungry," said Nimrod. "For Englishmen, it is like a canonical hour. And almost as much of an important ritual as the tea ceremony in Japan. Except for one thing. With tea, in Japan, recognition is given that every human encounter is a singular occasion which can, and will, never recur again exactly. Thus every aspect of tea must be savored for what it gives the participants. But in England, the significance occurs in the fact that teas is always the same, and will always recur again and again, exactly . For how is the endurance of a great civilization to be measured?

The whole world gets turned upside down by the wish for riches and power. If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. If wishes were soldiers, then weak men would rule. And if wishes were elixirs, then all men would live forever.