William Phelps

William Phelps
happiest happiness thinks
The happiest person is he who thinks the most interesting thoughts.
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Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation.
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The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century
ancestors ancestry arrived glad nine
I am glad my ancestors arrived on the Mayflower, but I am gladder that there are nine generations between us.
divide forget readers remember
I divide all readers into two classes: Those who read to remember and those who read to forget