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"The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down."
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"I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself."
"I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly."
"It is normal for me to wake and find myself writing in the dark... or to be out of my tomb, caught in an unearthly world, alive with the images that haunt me."
"The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else doing it wrong, without commenting."
"The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray."
"You are safer here tonight than you would be on the streets of any other city in the world."
"Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned."
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"It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world."
"Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult."
"Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure."
"The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."
"You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."
"The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne."
"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."
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