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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."

"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."

"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."
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"If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police."

"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

"The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye."

"I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered."

"If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him."

"There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may."

"We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend."
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