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"Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty."
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"I've learned to get really good at this - say one thing when I'm thinking about something else, act like I'm listening when I'm not, pretend to be calm and happy when I'm really freaking out. It's one of the skills you perfect as you get older."
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"The difference between human and other species is, they eat each other when they have nothing to eat, but we eat each other while having everything."
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"I can't remember exactly when I started to steal, but I do remember being aware of the fact that if I wanted to enjoy myself and be popular, money was the way to do it."
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"I like dogs that bark a little. The silent ones scare me."
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"My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability--take for instance, my fondness for reading books at the dinner table."
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"It is astounding what power being kind, mannered, polite and considerate has in transforming your life."
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"He discards a quilt for fear of bugs."
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"Pay attention. How a person handles poor cell service, traffic, and spotty wifi is a good indicator of how they'll behave during relationship challenges."
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"If they do it often, it isn't a mistake; it's just their behavior."
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"Flirting with random women in a tavern? That sounds like Helios. Well, it sounds like most of the gods, actually."
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"Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return."
Love
"An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry."
Peace
"Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet."
Death
"What makes life dreary is the want of a motive."
Life
"A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe."
Happiness
"We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves."
God
"Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress."
Progress
"It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us."
Circumstance
"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."
Fact
"There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life."
Life
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