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| It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air… | | Uncategorized | | |
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| Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players. Cultivated labor drives out brute labor. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| Nature is a mutable cloud, which is always and never the same. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| No great man ever complains of want of opportunity. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. | | Uncategorized | | |
