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"He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."
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"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
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"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."
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"It's like being a Knight of the Garter. It's an honor, but it doesn't hold up anything."
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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
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"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
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"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
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"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
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"Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Lets go inland and be killed."
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"The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable."
Love
"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."
Age
"The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant."
Fact
"Every blade has two edges, he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other."
Consequence
"If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring."
Love
"A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas."
Future
"This is what men call genius, just as they call a painted face beauty and a richly attired figure majesty. The confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud."
Art
"Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education."
Education
"Who has been unhooking the stars without my permission, and putting them on the table in the guise of candles?"
Mystery
"I see black light (his last words)."
Mystery
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