How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless." "Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them." "I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.
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The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.