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"The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork."
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"You see it everywhere and everyone seems to be doing it but you. You could have had it as well, and you know it, and that's what bothers you. Your worst enemy is yourself, and sadly, you know that what you did wasn't worth what you lost."
"Time lost can never be regained."
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"There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad."
"Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist."
"Nay, without thought or conscious desire, might not things external to ourselves vibrate in unison with our moods and passions, atom calling to atom in secret love or strange affinity?"
"In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth."
"There were poisons so subtle that to know their properties one had to sicken of them. There were maladies so strange that one had to pass through them if one sought to understand their nature."
"Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity."
"I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life."
"The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable."
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