"Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin."
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"Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham."
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"Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions."
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"Literature is ... a game, but it's a game one can put one's life into."
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"Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction."
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"Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor."
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"I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting."
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"Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it."
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"Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall."
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"There are two ways to handle a woman, and nobody knows either of them."
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"An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed"
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"It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about."
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"Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught."
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"True friends appear less moved than counterfeit."
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"Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason."
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"I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts."
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"All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose."
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"I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me."
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"He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure."
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"There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live."
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