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"A man's as miserable as he thinks he is."
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"The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right."

"Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction."

"Seeing's believing but feeling's the truth."

"The more you look, the less you see."

"The feeling that the world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong."

"What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?"

"Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things."

"Remarkable, really, the lengths to which humans will go to fit things into their version of reality."

"But even though she was attractive, there was something else about her that caught his eye. She was intelligent, he could sense that right away, and confident, too, as if she were able to move through life on her own terms. To him, these were the things that really mattered. Without them, beauty was nothing."

"Intelligence is a necessity, but when one is without a supernatural sense, intelligence becomes senseless."
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"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for no wind is the right wind."

"No man can live happily who regards himself alone who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another if thou wishest to live for thyself."

"There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage."

"The good things that belong to prosperity are to be wished but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."
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