"It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else."

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"It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live."

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"Nothing is harder than to accept oneself."

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"I started out with nothing. I still have most of it."

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"Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote."

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"The more we do, the more we can do."

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"We had as lief not be as not be ourselves."

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"A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being."

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"Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away, no being off your guard (or you must take the consequences) - neither is there any room for humour or caprice or prejudice."

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"There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love."

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"No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history."

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"We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them."

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"The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough."

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"In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates."

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