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"It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them."
People

"The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying."
Death

"A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward."
Time

"Weaklings must lie."
Lie

"Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time."
Life

"Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm."
Life

"Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger."
Man

"Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations."
Action

"The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity."
Home

"Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life."
Life
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"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
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"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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"Genius: the superhuman in man."
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Personal Development

"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
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"I will praise any man that will praise me."
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"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."
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"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."
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