"A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."

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"A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."

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"Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration."

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"Man is at the bottom an animal midway a citizen and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top."

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"The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl vigilant in darkness and blind to light mousing for vermin and never seeing noble game. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad."

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