"The only thing that could spoil a..." - Quote by Ernest Hemingway
The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
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“There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.”
“All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.”
“I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.”
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“And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.”
“You owe it to yourself not to permit your emotions to place your happiness in the keeping of another person.”
“The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don't.”
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“Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid.”
“You can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can never please all of the people all of the time.”
“You know, the only way I've found to make these pictures is with animators. You can't seem to do it with accountants and bookkeepers.”