"To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved."
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"It's very difficult to read a book on your computer."
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"The present will not long endure."
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"They do say that the profession gets increasingly difficult, but my career seems to have been inside out. I'm playing the biggest parts now that I'm older. That's probably right, because I wasn't ready for them before."
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"A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life."
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"No matter what happens or how difficult things become, you will eventually feel better."
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"I've proved to be as difficult to convert as I am to hypnotize."
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"It is difficult to stop in time because one gets carried away. But I have that strength; it is the only strength I have."
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"...it is simplicity that is difficult to make."
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"To write simply is as difficult as to be good."
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"In actuality, there was casting for the show and it was pretty difficult."
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"Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance."
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"It is very difficult to make the ideas in my head come to life, but what is harder is making them look effortless."
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"They say that I have no hits and that I'm difficult to work with. And they say that like it's a bad thing."
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"The sage regards things as difficult, and thereby avoids difficulty."
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"For some time I lived in fear of receiving a letter signed 'S. Gollum'. That would have been more difficult to deal with."
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"Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt!"
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"If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that to happen, we would reinstate it from time to time."
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"It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody."
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"That life is difficult, I have often bitterly realized."
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