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"A brave man acknowledges the strength of others."
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"So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts."


"Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts."


"It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you."


"But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality."


"Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck."


"All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo."


"A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise."


"True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong."
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"I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already."


"You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'"


"Crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the behest of emotion.I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity."


"How many young men fear that there is a monster inside them? People are supposed to fear others, not themselves. People are supposed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought."


"So you're her brother? says Lynn. "I guess we know who got the good genes.I laugh at the expression on Caleb's face, his mouth drawn into a slight pucker and his eyes wide."


"I have been able to be kind and pleasant to him because every time I think of what happened in Erudite headquarters, I immediately push the thought aside. But that can't be forgiveness - if I had forgiven him, I would be able to think of what happened without that hated I can feel in my gut, right?Or maybe forgiveness is just the continual pushing aside of bitter memories, until time dulls the hurt and the anger, and the wrong is forgotten."
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