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"O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!"
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"Stupidity has a knack for getting its way."

"People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite... Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished."

"So unsirious work... I behave nice because I want people to behave in the same way with me."

"I like dogs that bark a little. The silent ones scare me."

"Guard your heart and mind against double-minded pretentious beings. Do not allow infiltration beyond the surface. If their influence travels on the inside, they become like an incurable disease."
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"What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it."


"'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come."


"Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary."


"One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation."


"He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit."
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