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"Living with a saint is more grueling than being one."
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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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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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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."
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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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"The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian."
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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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"Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave."
Courage
"Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave."
Soul
"The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul."
Soul
"Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it."
Man
"The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it."
Life
"No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities."
Happiness
"Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length."
Talent
"Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for."
Friendship
"A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it."
Mistake
"As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue."
Virtue
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