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"The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character."
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"Anyone who has gumption knows what it is and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is."
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"Faithfulness to one's word is one of the principles of discipline."
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"Integrity is an eternal virtue we should focus our mind on and not miracles."
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"The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character."
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"It is only the man that delays his gratification that is a man indeed."
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"Character is what can do without success."
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"Trials makes you to develop the qualities of a successful man."
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"Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genuinely golden. None of your superficial plating. A solid, twenty-two-carat silence all the way through. The Olympian's trap is kept shut, not by an act of willed discretion, but because there's really nothing to say. Goddesses are all of one piece. There's no internal conflict in them. Whereas the lives of people like you and me are one long argument. Desires on one side, woodpeckers on the other. Never a moment of real silence."
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"Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind."
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"You become a hypocrite when you can't freely be at peace with others, but you can carry green palm leaves to church to commemorate "palm Sunday"! Throw those palm leaves somewhere; and lay your life down for someone to walk on and get to the destined land!"
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"The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character."
Character
"Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies."
Hearing
"Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking."
Drink
"I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power."
Power
"The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure."
First
"Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them."
Action
"The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied."
Cause
"Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved."
Choice
"The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star."
Happiness
"When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate."
Fate
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