"Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal."
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"This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: At the time, no one knew what was coming."
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"I may not look it, but I can be a very patient guy. And killing time is one of my specialities."
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"I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip away."
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"So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little. I had not consciously intended to keep May Kasahara a secret from Kumiko. My relationship with her was not that big a deal: whether I mentioned it or not was of no consequence. Once it had flown down a certain delicate channel, however, it had become cloaked in the opacity of secretiveness, whatever my original intention had have been."
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"Only strong natures can really be sweet ones; those that seem sweet are in general only weak, and may easily turn sour."
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"It is much better to learn to deal with the ills we have now than to speculate on those that may befall us."
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"No accidents are so unlucky [bad] but that the wise may draw some advantage [good] from them."
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"There are no accidents so unlucky but the prudent may draw some advantage from them."
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"A respectable man may love madly, but not foolishly."
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"There may be talent without position, but there is no position without some kind of talent."
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"One man may be more cunning than another, but no one can be more cunning than all the world."
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"Those who have the most cunning affect all their lives to condemn cunning; that they may make use of it on some great occasion, and to some great end."
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"However evil men may be they dare not be openly hostile to virtue, and so when they want to attack it they pretend to find it spurious , or impute crimes to it."
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"Our repentances are generally not so much a concern and remorse for the harm we have done, as a fear of the harm we may have brought upon ourselves."
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"A man may be sharper than another, but not than all others."
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"We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do."
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"Some allow themselves to be overcome by panic, and others charge because they dare not remain at their posts. Some may be found whose courage is strengthened by small perils that prepare them to face greater dangers. Some are daring when facing swords but dread facing bullets; others dread bullets little but fear facing swords a lot."
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"Praise is a more ingenious, concealed, and subtle kind of flattery, that satisfies both the giver and the receiver, though by verydifferent ways. The one accepts it as a reward due to his merit; the other gives it that he may be looked upon as a just and discerning person."
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"Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt for death which is only the fear of facing it; so that one may say that this constancy and contempt are to their mind what the bandage is to their eyes."
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