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Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.

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If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

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A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.

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To thee, fair Freedom! I retire From flattery, cards, and dice, and din:...

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A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

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A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind.

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Cease, warring thoughts, and let his brain No more discord entertain But be smooth and calm again.

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They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they, pale captives, creep to death.

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Victorious men of earth, no more Proclaim how wide your empires are;...

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The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate; Death lays his icy hands on kings.

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The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things;...

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

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The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

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A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

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Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

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People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.

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In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

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My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

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Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

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