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| The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete. | | Confucius | | |
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| The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. | | Oscar Wilde | | |
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| The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laugther. | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | | |
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| The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance. | | Confucius | | |
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| The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture, and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends. | | Oscar Wilde | | |
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| The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue. | | Confucius | | |
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| The glory of friendship is not the outstreched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him. | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | | |
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| The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways--I to die and you to live. Which is the better, only God knows. | | Socrates | | |
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| The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. | | Friedrich Nietzsche | | |
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| The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own. | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | | |
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