"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."

Being, Motives, Vanity

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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."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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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."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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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."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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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."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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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."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

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"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."

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"He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage."

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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."

"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."

"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."

"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."

"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."

"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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"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

"I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just."

"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."

"He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage."

"The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth."

"The future is purchased by the present."

"Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions."

"I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him."