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“Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its shiny, patent-leather finish and its red hourglass trademark. But the poor thing has the fatal misfortune of possessing enormously too much power for its size. So everybody kills it on sight.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
“Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
“Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy - in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
“A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
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