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Quote #1:   "Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks."
Quote #2:   "If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live."
Quote #3:   "Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undoneThe wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials."
Quote #4:   "This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought."
Quote #5:   "'I have done my best.' That is about all the philosophy of living one needs."