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"Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet."
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"Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn."
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"I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me."
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"Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree."
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"No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things."
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"It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it."
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"A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute."
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"I have to live with both my selves as best I may."
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"New Yorkers may think they're on some cutting edge, but that's not especially true. It is, however, the most exciting heterogeneous mess of a town I've ever seen."
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"It may not be possible to get rare roast beef but if you're willing to settle for well done, ask them to hold the sweetened library paste that passes for gravy."
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"It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow."
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"What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself."
Country
"You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be."
Friendship
"Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?"
Evil
"The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time."
Time
"He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero."
Genius
"The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers."
Difficulty
"If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already."
Society
"Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship."
Friendship
"Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character."
Action
"Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers."
Trust
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