"The question to ask about the writer isn't 'Why does he behave so badly?' but 'What does he gain by wearing this mask?"
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"The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things."
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"Expectation is contentment - Gain satiety."
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"Bad gains are true losses."
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"Hope of gain lessens pain."
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"Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice."
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"There is no gains without pain."
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"It is a psychological fact that we cherish most what we have worked hardest to gain. The further we have come, the sweeter the celebration at the destination when we arrive."
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"I'm just really tiny. People hate me, because I just sit. I'm eating, I'm eating, I'm eating and then I just... sit. And I don't gain a thing."
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"If you first gain power to check your words, you will then begin to have power to check your judgment, and at length actually gain power to check your thoughts and reflections."
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"A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content."
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"I think that Governor Romney operates on the capital gains tax, his investments, what he lives off of instead of doing it off of his income."
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"The market economy succeeds not because some people's interests are suppressed and other people are kept out of the market, but because people gain individual advantage from it."
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"One may gain one truth at the expense of another."
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"I've learned how to turn the adversities in my life into enriching experiences. You can actually gain a lot from adversities and they make you the person you are today."
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"Value is that which one acts to gain and/or keep. Virtue is the act by which one aims and/or keeps it."
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"I have worked with investors for 60 years and I have yet to see anyone - not even when capital gains rates were 39.9 percent in 1976-77 - shy away from a sensible investment because of the tax rate on the potential gain."
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"The love of gain never made a painter; but it has marred many."
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"The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption."
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"The liquid drops of tears that you have shed Shall come again, transform'd to orient pearl, Advantaging their loan with interest Of ten times double gain of happiness."
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