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Truth never hurts the teller.

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In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.

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White shall not neutralize the black, nor good Compensate bad in man, absolve him so: Life's business being just the terrible choice

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There's a new tribunal now Higher than God's—the educated man's!

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Who fished the murex up? / What porridge had John Keats?

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He's Judas to a tittle, that man is!

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—E'en then would be some stooping; and I choose Never to stoop. Oh sir, she smiled, no doubt,...

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It gets down to core values, how you can live and keep things straight and maintain an even keel. It helps to listen to people who share how they've done it. It's an everlasting human story.

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What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

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Where had I been now if the worst befell? / And here we are riding, she and I.

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The grand perhaps! We look on helplessly, there the old misgivings, crooked questions are.

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Only I discern— Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.

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What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept

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Let us try. To-morrow, how you shall be glad for this!

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Where sportive ladies leave their doors ajar.

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Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.

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You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

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Talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.

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Housekeeping ain't no joke.

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