"Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion."
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"Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success."
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"Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough."
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"There is no need for me to curse you -the murderer survives the victim only to learn that it was himself that he longed to be rid of. Hatred is self-hatred."
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"It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves."
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"Without your wounds where would your power be? It is your melancholy that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men and women. The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living. In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve. Physician, draw back."
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"All excellence is equally difficult."
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"I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms."
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"The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way."
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"We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind."
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"People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome."
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"Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise."
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"I have inherited this burden of superstition and nonsense. I govern innumerable men but must acknowledge that I am governed by birds and thunderclaps"
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"Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other. There may be two equally good, equally gifted, equally beautiful, but theremay never be two that love one another equally well."
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"I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it."
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"Being employed is like being loved: you know that somebody's thinking about you the whole time."
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"Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations."
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"In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide."
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"Every person who has ever lived has lived an unbroken succession of unique occasions."
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"Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them."
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