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"'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems."
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"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink."
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"When I'm left on my own I'm my own worst enemy."
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Personal Development
"Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion."
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"One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good."
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"Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind."
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"The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them."
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"Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind."
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"I can do nothing with the enemy save observe him."
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"Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free."
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"When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars."
People
"There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope."
Hope
"If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers."
Home
"People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do."
People
"Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on."
Work
"When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it."
Friendship
"A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person."
Fact
"Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist."
Men
"It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry."
Geometry
"There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it."
Men
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