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"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction."
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"He was certain he was anorectic, because every time he looked in a mirror he saw a fat man. It was the Archchancellor, standing behind him and shouting at him."

"Obviously, the difference between a game and actual training is you're using your whole body, so in that sense, maybe not, although maybe something to do with reaction, the speed of reaction, maybe that was of use during the training."

"I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body."

"The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind."

"Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores."

"To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body."

"It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages."
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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."

"I ask: which of the two, civil or natural life, is more likely to become insufferable to those who live it? We see about us practically no people who do not complain about their existence; many even deprive themselves of it to the extent they are able, and the combination of divine and human laws is hardly enough to stop this disorder."
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