"Wars are made to make debt."
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"Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric."
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"Time, which sees all things, has found you out."
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"The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution."
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"Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger."
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"All literature is protest."
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"The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good."
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"Nothing leads to good that is not natural."
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"A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ."
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"No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself."
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"If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays."
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"Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised."
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"Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt."
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"There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street."
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"The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none."
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"The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist."
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"No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish."
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"In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries."
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"Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life."
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"Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain."
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