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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."
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Personal Development
"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
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Personal Development
"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."
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Personal Development
"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."
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Personal Development
"Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted."
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Personal Development
"Give light and people will find the way."
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Personal Development
"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."
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Personal Development
"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."
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Personal Development
"People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not."
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Personal Development
"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."
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"I want so much for my lover. At night when our beds are drawn close together I waken and see his dear yellow head on the pillow - sometimes his arm thrown over on my bed - and I kiss his hand, very softly so that it will not waken him."
Love
"Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out."
People
"I think we will have a boy baby and he will be born on the 20th of August. Everyone else has a girl baby and at times I don't believe I should mind having a little Phyllis Dawn but Dearest wants a boy and I do."
Family
"Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement."
Life
"A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person."
Running
"A capacity for going overboard is a requisite for a full-grown mind."
Mind
"The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy."
Comedy
"Joe and Jojo and I had lovely day together. I love Joe so much - more and more."
Love
"The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power)."
War
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