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"Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity."
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"When you begin to run after miracles you dehumanize yourself."
"There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means."
"There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity."
"Some disappointments honor those who inspire them."
"Love . . . includes fellowship in suffering in joy and in effort."
"Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself."
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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."
"However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once."
"Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices."
"Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million."
"The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naA ve enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows: Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody."
"So finally we tumble into the abyss, we ask God why he has made us so feeble. But, in spite of ourselves, He replies through our consciences: 'I have made you too feeble to climb out of the pit, because i made you strong enough not to fall in."
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