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"There's no work so tirin' as danglin' about an' starin' an' not rightly knowin' what you're goin' to do next, and keepin' your face i' smilin' order like a grocer o' market-day for fear people shouldna think you civil enough."
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"The one thing that matters is the effort."
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"Hard tasks need hard ways."
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"Effort will always triumph over unapplied potential."
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"The merit of all things lies in their difficulty."
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"Plans are easy to make, dreams are easy to dream. But putting your back into it? A little bit of hard graft and discipline? That is just too scary and far too much effort for the masses."
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"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."
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"A mediocre response often is what achieves mediocre results."
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"You can or you can't is not the matter.You wanted to or you tried is the whole game about."
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"I tried your best and it didn't work, so now I'm going to try my best and I'm sure that I'll succeed!"
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"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure."
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"The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character."
Character

"A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards."
Relationship

"Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty."
Love

"What makes life dreary is the want of a motive."
Life

"Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet."
Death

"The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear altogether the same."
Marriage

"Might could would-they are contemptible auxiliaries."
Ethics

"People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate."
People

"In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as they tie their cravats there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little."
Life

"Selfish- a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice."
Morality
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