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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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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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Personal Development

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

"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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Personal Development

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

"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."
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"All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition."
Inferiority


"Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce."
Power


"No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first."
Love


"Love is the cheapest of religions."
Love


"Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances."
Mistake


"Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body."
Body


"Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue."
Action


"One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better."
Being


"No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide."
Reason


"The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies."
Art
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