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"Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness."
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"I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody."

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

"When you are seeing a person, you are not really seeing him. You are seeing his reflection through the mirror of your mind."

"I smelled silt on the wind, turkey, laundry, leaves . . . my God what a world. There is no accounting for one second of it (267)."

"When you read between the lines, you must have bloody good eyesight because I can't see a bloody thing!"

"We see the world as we are."

"A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses."

"People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time."

"I recollect it was settled by general consent that India was quite a misrepresented country, and had nothing objectionable in it, but a tiger or two, and a little heat in the warm part of the day."
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"If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping."


"CHORUS:You that live in my ancestral Thebes, behold this Oedipus,- him who knew the famous riddles and was a man most masterful; not a citizen who did not look with envy on his lot- see him now and see the breakers of misfortune swallow him!Look upon that last day always. Count no mortal happy till he has passed the final limit of his life secure from pain."


"One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession."


"Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the powerTo reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty."
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