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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

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

"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."
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Personal Development

"The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian."
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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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Personal Development

"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."
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"Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now."
Now

"Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom."
God

"I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners."
Being

"Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic."
People

"In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice."
Dying

"All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day."
Humor

"What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?"
Man

"There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances."
Creativity

"I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep."
Humor

"The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up."
Truth
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