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A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.
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No sin is small.
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Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a...
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Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us and endeavor...
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Pride is a spiritual Cancer: It eats up the very possibilty of love, or...
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When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put...
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As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly...
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Everyone is expected to be highly productive… but they do not all need to...
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Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
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He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires and fears is more...