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"Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent."
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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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"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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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."
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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."
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"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
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"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."
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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"
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"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."
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"Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little."
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"What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud."
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"It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet."
Flowers

"The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak."
Faith

"A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions."
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"Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it."
Family

"Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel."
Thought

"Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them."
People

"Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming."
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"Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent."
Being
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