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"Being an only child is a disease in itself."
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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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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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"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."
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"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
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"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."
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"Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development."
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"Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases."
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"The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life."
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"The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity."
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"Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born."
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"Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself."
Love

"Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment."
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"Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will."
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"Being an only child is a disease in itself."
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"Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children."
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