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"The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so."
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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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"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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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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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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"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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"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
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"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."
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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"
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"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."
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"Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another."
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"In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances."
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"Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly."
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"True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen."
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"It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone."
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"The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity."
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"Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world."
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"It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self."
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"Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt."
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"We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves."
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