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"The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators."
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"There's wall of agony between dreams and reality."
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"She gave me for my pains a world of sighs."
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"The thing was, if I had found a way to escape- even for just a little while- I knew the pain would be there waiting for me when I got back."
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"It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you."
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"Sheep hurt my father, and through my father, sheep have also hurt me."
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"Only pain can define the meaning of tears."
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"Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy."
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"It hurts, Summer cries, head shaking back and forth. 'Please, make it stop. Sweat beads on her forehead.'What hurts? Cameron asks.'My eyes.Summer's eyes open. Everyone gasps. They're no longer blue; they appear bionic, like a circuit board's inside her eyes. Panicked now, Summer reaches for her face. 'What is it? What's wrong?"
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"Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory mechanism by which the individual persuades himself to take over the external sanctions because he has no fundamental assurance that his own choices have any sanction of their own"
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"What will break me into a million pieces so that I am beyond repair, beyond usefulness?"
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"There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen."
Disparity
"I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read."
Books
"A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in."
Progress
"Nothing is so useless as a general maxim."
Generalization
"Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim."
People
"People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws."
Power
"That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy."
Government
"The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners."
Man
"There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom."
Cure
"I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies."
Ambition
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