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"Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others."
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"Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion."
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"I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old."
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"Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting."
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"At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment."
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"It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture."
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"Even peace may be purchased at too high a price."
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"And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief."
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"He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too."
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"Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her."
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"All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world."
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"If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment."
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"I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid."
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"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."
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"Patience is sorrow's salve."
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"Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily."
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"Patience is the best medicine."
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"Waiting is the great vocation of the dispossessed."
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"Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second."
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"Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem."
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"Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least."
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