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Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
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It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can...
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Have a variety of interests … These interests relax the mind and lessen tension...
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They can expect nothing but their labour for their pains.
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The desire for success lubricates secret prostitutions in the soul.