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"Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end."
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"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
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"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."
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"Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel."
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"It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind."
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"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
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"The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection."
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"Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even."
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"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."
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"It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality."
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"Life is a dancing mind, loving heart, caring soul, and wandering thoughts."
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"In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all."
Philosophy

"The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries."
Life

"Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic."
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"We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality."
Life

"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us."
Time

"The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe."
Comfort

"I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped."
Being

"I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same."
Being

"Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out."
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"Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end."
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