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"There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol."
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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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"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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"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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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."
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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."
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"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."
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"I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them."
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"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."
Parenting
"A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of."
Talent
"Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense."
Music
"I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: "What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.""
Man
"Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble."
People
"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable."
Life
"Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud."
Friendship
"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."
Reading
"To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction."
Morality
"If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it."
Heart
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