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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." |