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"I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper."
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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."
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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
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"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."
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"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
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"I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting."
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"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us."
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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"
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"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."
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"There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live."
Folk
"Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood."
Talk
"Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money."
Money
"No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living."
Life
"True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise."
Compromise
"It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love."
Love
"Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place."
World
"To marry a fool is to be no fool."
Fool
"There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket."
Praise
"I live on good soup, not on fine words."
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