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"A pure hand needs no glove to cover it."
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"We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death."
Death

"Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale."
Conscience

"The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison."
Happiness

"A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world."
World

"A pure hand needs no glove to cover it."
Needs

"The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash."
Friendship

"Easy reading is damn hard writing."
Reading

"The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed."
Wisdom

"Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal."
Thought

"What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests."
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"The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member."
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Personal Development

"How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into."
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Personal Development

"I believe Wall Street needs serious ongoing regulation."
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Personal Development

"A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife."
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Personal Development

"I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame."
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Personal Development

"What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian."
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"The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness."
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Personal Development

"So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition."
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"I'm part of an important movement that needs to happen."
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Personal Development

"Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works."
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Personal Development
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