"Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps."
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"To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud."
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"Winter does not work only on a broad scale; he is careful in trifles."
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"If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death."
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"Good-humor and, generosity carry day with the popular heart all the world over."
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"I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me. I breathe the morning air of the world while the scent of Eden's roses yet lingered in it, while it vibrated only to the world's first brood of nightingales, and to the laugh of Eve. I see the pyramids building; I hear the shoutings of the armies of Alexander."
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"In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it."
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"I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame."
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"Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at."
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"Each time we love,We turn a nearer and a broader markTo that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes."
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"Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life."
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"Sweet April's tears, Dead on the hem of May."
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"The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night."
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"The truly great rest in the knowledge of their own deserts, nor seek the conformation of the world."
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"The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time."
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"To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for."
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"If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well."
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"Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well."
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"The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has; you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps, but all the savants in the world could not produce a reliable map of the poorest human personality."
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"In my garden I spend my days; in my library I spend my nights."
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