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"Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours."
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Personal Development

"As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing."
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Personal Development

"Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal."
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Personal Development

"There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose."
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Personal Development

"Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so."
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Personal Development

"Nothing endures but personal qualities."
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Personal Development

"There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence."
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Personal Development

"Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable."
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Personal Development

"Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable."
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Personal Development

"Nothing like a little judicious levity."
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"Business is the salt of life."
Business

"You are very harsh.''I have seen the world."
Reality

"How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted."
Family

"One great use of words is to hide our thoughts."
Thought

"Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe."
Faith

"Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same."
Love

"We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest."
Work

"The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work."
Work

"It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love."
Love

"One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose."
Poetry
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