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"I might show it to you, but you'd never see it. The privilege isn't given to every one; it's not enviable. It has never been seen by a young, happy, innocent person like you. You must have suffered first, have suffered greatly, have gained some miserable knowledge. In that way your eyes are opened to it."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land."
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"True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand."
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