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People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

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All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.

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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

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Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call.

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Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.

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For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

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A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

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We are always getting ready to live but never living.

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The first wealth is health.

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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

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Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

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We must be our own before we can be another's.

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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

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Pictures must not be too picturesque.

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