"A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands."
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"An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones."
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"Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant."
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"Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be."
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"O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu. [Fr., Amour! Amour! quand tu nous tiens On peut bien dire, Adieu, prudence.]"
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"O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence."
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"The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?"
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"Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly."
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"Even knaves may be made good for something."
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"To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason."
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"Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom."
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"I believe, I desire, that social and economic ills may be remedied."
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"Therefore, in the nature of this will for freedom, which freedom itself implies, I may pass judgement on those who seek to hide from themselves the complete arbitrariness and the complete freedom of their existence."
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"What smells good in the store may stink in the stewpot."
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"Movies get found in the editing room. The movie that you make is not always necessarily the movie that comes out of the editing room. The trick is to perfect the movie that you have and make it the best version of what you've shot, regardless of what the intent may have been."
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"I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him."
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"What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune; nay, of other circumstances which gather round us in a harmonious way, whether it arise from a kind of fatality, or that man has the power of attracting to himself things that are mutually related."
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"Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings in the general concerns of the world."
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"The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting."
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"There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason."
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