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How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to...
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Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.
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Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.
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If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have...
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms,...
Quote #28010
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.
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The people have a right supremeTo make their kings, for Kings are made for...
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you...
Quote #23970
Cleave never to the sunnier side of doubt.