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Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him.
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Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to be quite true.
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Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.
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Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.
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Discovering Samuel Beckett in college was a big deal for me. I realized you could be very funny and very dark at the same time.
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Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
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Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience. You will find it a calamity.
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Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.
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Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
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Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players, and Tennessee Williams has about 5, and Samuel Beckett one - and maybe a clone of that one. I have 10 or so, and that's a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.
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