"There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes."
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"Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man."
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"My life is for itself and not for a spectacle."
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"The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal."
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"All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair."
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"No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him."
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"Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate."
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"In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold."
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"There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places."
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"Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth."
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"All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great."
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"Success in your work, the finding a better method, the better understanding that insures the better performing is hat and coat, is food and wine, is fire and horse and health and holiday. At least, I find that any success in my work has the effect on my spirits of all these."
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"Alas for America as I must so often say, the ungirt, the diffuse, the profuse, procumbent, one wide ground juniper, out of which no cedar, no oak will rear up a mast to the clouds! It all runs to leaves, to suckers, to tendrils, to miscellany. The air is loaded with poppy, with imbecility, with dispersion, & sloth."
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"This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence."
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"I like people who like Plato."
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"Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons."
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"Wherever the truth is injured, defend it."
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"Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat."
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"Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways."
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"We surround ourselves with the true image of ourselves."
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