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The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
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The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.
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The importance of anything in the world is precisely the importance which we attach to it ourselves.
The maxims of Marmaduke -
The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically. If we do not, no strength of arms can permanently oppose it.
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The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
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The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.
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The least practical solutions have the best acronyms.
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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.
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The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
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The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.
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The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
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The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.
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The man who has done his best has done everything.
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The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
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The men who learn endurance are those who call the whole world brother.
Barnaby Rudge -
The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came.
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The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.
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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
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The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.
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The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, or appropriation. There is no state of feeling that says ''mine, mine,'' more fiercely.
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