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"The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong."
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Personal Development
"Terrible times breed terrible things, my lord."
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Personal Development
"Poverty is a force that pulls down the head of the people."
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Personal Development
"Hardship makes the world obscure."
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Personal Development
"There is nothing quite as unpleasant as wearing a pair of briefs which have been trailed through a Calcutta courtyard. Nothing, that is, except having one's elbows and knees lacerated by unseen slivers of glass and discarded razor blades."
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Personal Development
"By three in the afternoon, after one Bintang too many, I was absolutely smashed and feared that trying to stand may end badly."
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Personal Development
"However, with a gut full of heroin, it's hard to be an optimist."
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Personal Development
"Bad and worse and worst makes a beggar's choice."
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"The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow."
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"The food we were given was no more than eatable, but the patron was not mean about drink; he allowed us two litres of wine a day each, knowing that if a plongeur is not given two litres he will steal three."
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"When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live."
Life
"Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again."
Change
"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."
Man
"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
People
"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
Man
"I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just."
Man
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
Strength
"He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage."
Power
"The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth."
Politics
"The future is purchased by the present."
Future
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