"How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?"
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"An unclean person is universally a slothful one."
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"Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet."
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"Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful."
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"It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so."
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"Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct."
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"Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world."
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"Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion."
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"To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment."
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"Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill."
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"Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess."
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"The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style."
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"The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said."
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"A man's most open actions have a secret side to them."
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"Bad literature is a form of treason."
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"We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same."
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"Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them."
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"How vain, without the merit, is the name."
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"Virtue is the truest nobility."
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"It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it."
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