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"The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it."
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"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same."
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"A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion."
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"There may be something good in silence. It's a brand new thing. You can hear the funniest little discussions, if you keep turning the volume down. Shut yourself up, and listen out loud."

"We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning."
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"A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute."
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"There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes."

"I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die."

"Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best."

"What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach."
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