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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
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