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

"There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do."

"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."
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"The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them."

"But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung."

"Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural."

"That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life."

"All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves."
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