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Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear.
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Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
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Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.
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Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse.
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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.
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Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.
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Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.
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Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
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Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.
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Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see - but microscopes are prudent in an emergency
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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Fashion has always been a repetition of ideas, but what makes it new is the way you put it together.
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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
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Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from the force of character.
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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it
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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
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