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"To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know."
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"He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it."
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"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself."
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"We do not know what is really good or bad fortune."
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"Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost."
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"Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being."
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"Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion."
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"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction."
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"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know."
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"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"
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"I may be no better, but at least I am different."
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"Many of you think about your childhood and particularly about things that did not work out. Forget that and instead think of what you have achieved and what you aspire to do in the times to come.""
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"In whatever we do, we should be investing in ourselves and not our jobs. Everything I have ever pursued has been for the sole goal of who I was becoming in its achievement. I competed and fought because of the man I became. This is the only worthwhile victory. You cannot take the trophies with you."
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"The best of us must sometimes eat our words."
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"If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much."
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"We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced."
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"Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong."
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"Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression."
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"Always try to be someone of value than someone famous."
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