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"Alas! another instance of the triumph of hope over experience."
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"Not everything set on fire will rise."
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"I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly that events have controlled me."
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"You're too old for fairy tales, Baasen said."
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"A thing can be fine on paper but utterly crummy in the field."
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"By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life."
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"It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane."
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"There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened."
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"The real world is oftentimes different from what you expect it to be, what you think it to be, and what people might say it to be."
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"Children, our lives have been gongs striking; clamour and boasting; cries of despair; blows on the nape of the neck in gardens."
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"A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen."
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"Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle."
Battle
"There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money."
Money
"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."
Experience
"Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance."
Design
"The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth."
Art
"All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it."
Travel
"The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery."
Advice
"The true art of memory is the art of attention."
Art
"No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments."
Awareness
"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."
Being
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