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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Differences in political opinion are as unavoidable as, to a certain point, they may...
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they...
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Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who...
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Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers...
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The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
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Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of...
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Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason...
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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true Cling to it...