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"Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability."
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"The legacy we leave behind should be better than the legacy we inherited."

"To be remembered, umbrella waits for the rain!"

"Great deeds begin in the mind, extraordinary deeds begin in the heart, and remarkable deeds begin in the soul."

"A son is an unfulfilled man's last attempt to fulfill his unfulfilled dreams."

"Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that we are at liberty to suppose either that nothing was said, or that nothing witty was said, or that the fraction of three witty sayings lasted eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty nights, which does not leave a liberal allowance of wit for any one of them."

"Ideas taken and planted into the grave do not germinate."

"If you do not work hard, nothing works."
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"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."

"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."

"The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not."

"Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads."

"The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood."

"Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time."

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are they who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them make them."
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