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When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

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Sei Shonagon

A man who has nothing in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as if he knew everything.

Everything, Men, Nothing, Particular, Subjects

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If letters did not exist, what dark depressions would come over one! When one has been worrying about something and wants to tell a certain person about it, what a relief it is to put it all down in a letter! Still greater is one's joy when a reply arrives. At that moment a letter really seems like an elixir of life.

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There is nothing in the whole world so painful as feeling that one is not liked.

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In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature.

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One is telling a story about old times when someone breaks in with a little detail that he happens to know, implying that one's own version is inaccurate — disgusting behavior!

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A good lover will behave just as elegantly at dawn as at any other time.

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