"If there's anything I hate more than being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously."

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"If there's anything I hate more than being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously."

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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."

"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."

"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."

"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."

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"Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's."

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