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"The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy."
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"There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess."
Philosophy
"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."
Man
"Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed."
Philosophy
"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."
Mistake
"We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears."
Philosophy
"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
Man
"When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe."
Love
"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
People
"However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention."
Wisdom
"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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Personal Development
"Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, see to the (be?) worthy of being known."
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Personal Development
"Being is more important than doing."
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Personal Development
"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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Personal Development
"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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Personal Development
"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."
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Personal Development
"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
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Personal Development
"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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Personal Development
"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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Personal Development
"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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Personal Development
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