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"All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead."

"There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything."

"Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning."

"To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness."

"The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small."

"The first stage of any development is infancy."
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"The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it."

"He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace."

"Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds."

"False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth."

"We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things."
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