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"Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire."
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"The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different."
Life
"We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it."
Society
"One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one."
Experience
"Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration."
Family
"Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently."
History
"There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help."
Knowledge
"There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman."
Social
"People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception."
People
"Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure."
Leisure
"There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you."
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"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace."
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"People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others."
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Personal Development
"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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Personal Development
"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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Personal Development
"Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine."
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Personal Development
"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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Personal Development
"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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Personal Development
"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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Personal Development
"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."
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