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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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."
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Personal Development
"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
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Personal Development
"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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Personal Development
"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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"He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?"
Wife
"Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business."
Business
"Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly."
Being
"Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close."
Death
"Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one."
Being
"I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for."
People
"Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before."
Love
"Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other."
Poet
"Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding."
Love
"I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better."
Man
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