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It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.
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It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.
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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
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It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way… that is not easy.
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It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers.
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It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.
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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness.
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It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.
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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
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It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.
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It is hard for anyone under twenty to realise that death has already assigned them a number, which is going to come up one day.
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It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.
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It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's ''mature'' critics often are.
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It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.
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It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
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