"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."

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"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."

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"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."

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"A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself."

Henry Winkler, American Actor

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"Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me."

Lee Van Cleef, American Actor

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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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"What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?"

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"Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family."

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"The whole world is strewn with snares traps gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women."

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"As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death."

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"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them."

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"Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent."

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"It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him."

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