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I shall look as if I were suffering. I shall look a little as if I were dying. It is like that. Do not come to see that. It is not worth the trouble.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince"

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I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Thomas Paine

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Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.

Johnny Cash

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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

Jane Austen

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I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.

Abe Lemons

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Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds of trouble — the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Edward Everett Hale

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The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.

Thomas S. Monson

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For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. I solved the problem by sticking my finger in my mouth and popping it out.

Lawrence Welk

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.

Douglas Coupland

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The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.

Ogden Nash

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When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.

Winston Churchill

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Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Euripides

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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

Thomas Paine

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Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

William Ralph Inge

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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Norman Vincent Peale

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