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"Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself."
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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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Personal Development
"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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Personal Development
"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."
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"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."
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"The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian."
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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."
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"First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time."
Love
"The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris."
Nation
"We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are."
Happiness
"At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman."
Beauty
"Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin."
Business
"Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself."
Being
"The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other."
Love
"Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves."
Love
"Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart."
Equality
"The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman."
Passion
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