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Although there were many who did the dirty on him in the envious world of letters, Stephen* never let any of them live rent-free in his brain.
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Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
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Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.
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American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.
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Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.
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Among the very rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.
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An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
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An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
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An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark, that is critical genius.
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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
The Writer and the World (2012) 225 -
An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.
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An idea might spark an essay, but never a story.
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An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
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