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"I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build."
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"The frozen ocean... of Boston life."
Life

"The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness."
Needs

"I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build."
People

"Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions."
Woman

"I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends."
Integrity

"Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion."
Religion

"Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy."
People

"I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past."
Happiness

"The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community."
Community

"Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature."
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"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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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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Personal Development

"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

"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

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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Personal Development

"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."
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Personal Development

"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."
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Personal Development

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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Personal Development
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