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Every bachelor is a hero to some married woman.
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Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
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Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.
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Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
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Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.
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Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait - not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.
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Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.
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Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
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Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
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Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.
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Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
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Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.
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Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.
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Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way.
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Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.
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Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?
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Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
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