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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier. The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro, A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane. Autumn leaves and rain, The passion of the gale.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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