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"Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem."
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"A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets."
"Two kinds of ballplayers aren't worth a darn: One that never does what he's told, and one who does nothin' except what he's told."
"Diamonds are proof that the most valuable things are sometimes formed in the dark."
"If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of something that might have been immediately consumed, but wasn't."
"If roses were not special weeds would not envy them."
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"Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death."
"When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws."
"Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever."
"Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live."
"It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful."
"The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live."
"Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent."
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