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"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
"Only the last two planes, I think, had any shot of being intercepted and taken down on 9/11."
"Being a good psychoanalyst, in short, has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up."
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
"I'm not exactly an Einstein, so I compensate by being more focused."
"A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it."
"There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while."
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"Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder."
"But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong."
"I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear."
"Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return."
"Aye, aye, that's the way wi' thee: thee allays makes a peck o' thy own words out o' a pint o' the Bible's."
"The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best."
"An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry."
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