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If there was an abundance of misery in the world, there was also sufficient joy, yes - as long as one knew where to look for it.
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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?
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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.
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In my garden, which is a big garden, I have one part that is my bird garden, and every morning, 365 days a year, they get buckets of food - for the birds, for the squirrels, the chipmunks and the turtles in the summer.
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In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
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It is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.
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It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
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It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
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It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
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It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.
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It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
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It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
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It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.
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It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
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It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.
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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
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It takes two to speak the truth, one to speak, and another to hear.
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