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"Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses."
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"The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down."
"One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality."
"I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world."
"As we depend upon our masters, for what we eat and drink and wear, and for all our comfortable things in this world, we cannot be happy, unless we please them."
"I was between 2 and 3 in the world for two, three years. That's not exactly where I wanted to be."
"Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small."
"I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat."
"Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me."
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"You know that it is only through work that you can achieve anything, either in college or in the world."
"Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others."
"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers."
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