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"I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in."

"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."

"An outree explanation, violating all our preconceptions, would never pass for a true account of a novelty. We should scratch round industriously till we found something less excentric."

"Thought is actually something that is dead, it is not a living thing. If 'oneself' gets engrossed in what is dead, then it will become alive."

"It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up."

"But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought."
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"They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it."


"Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised."


"He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed."


"Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue."


"The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal."


"The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal."


"Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate."


"In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural."
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