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"I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood."
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"Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt."
Children
"Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails."
Truth
"The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice."
Life
"The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children."
Children
"If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong."
America
"The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business."
Business
"Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals."
People
"None meet life honestly and few heroically."
Life
"Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away."
Hope
"I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it."
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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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"Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, see to the (be?) worthy of being known."
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Personal Development
"Being is more important than doing."
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Personal Development
"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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Personal Development
"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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Personal Development
"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."
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Personal Development
"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
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Personal Development
"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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