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"Clear skies do not promise rain."

"A planet without birds is a planet without angels!"

"I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. . . . Then he was sorry for the great fish that had nothing to eat and his determination to kill him never relaxed in his sorrow for him. . . . There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behavior and his great dignity. I do not understand these things, he thought. But it is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers."
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"In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances."

"Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly."

"The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity."

"It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self."
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