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/ page 661 of 1205 /It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.
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Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
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I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.
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What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.
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Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
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Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
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It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
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It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
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If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
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It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
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Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
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This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
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Things do not change; we change.
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Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
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Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.
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In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
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