"There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves."
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"There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on how one looks at it."
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"Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them."
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"If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick."
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"Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it."
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"A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no identity he is continually informing and filling some other body."
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"Only the ideas that we really live have any value."
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"Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior."
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"The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital."
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"Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning."
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"How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?"
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"The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn."
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"What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told."
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"My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious."
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"He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style."
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"Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable."
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"The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid."
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"Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair."
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"Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them."
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"Prosperity is the best protector of principle."
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