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"Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy."

"I don't need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore, like I always thought I would."

"O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy."

"I realize then that it's not enough to know what someone is called. You have to know who they are."

"Trying to fix the shortcoming of others while ignoring your own flaws results in little if no improvement-not to mention bitter feelings. Concentrating on personal growth sets a good example and results in the improvement of one life if not more."
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"It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world."


"Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult."


"Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure."


"You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."


"Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy."


"Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles."
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