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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

"If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do."

"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."

"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."
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"What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud."

"It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet."

"A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions."

"Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it."

"Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them."

"Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming."
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