November 27

The worst have their passionate intensity and the struggle is not between faith and unbelief but between moderation and extremism.

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Our ultimate regret - that everything passes - may also prove our last consolation.

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We are all dying. The trick is to do it as slowly as possible.

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Midterms in America - and voters, furious at their physician's ineffective treatment, raid the medicine cabinet for the bottle that poisoned them.

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There is vanity in self-reproach: why should you be immune to human failure?

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Planning ahead, the best we can do is to choose with care our future regrets.