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Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
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Beware of the person of one book.
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Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
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I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
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If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.
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There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent.
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An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs, who has never learned to walk.
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A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
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A famous person is often remembered for the ability to take from mankind rather than for his ability to give to mankind.
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A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.
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A man always has two reasons for doing anything - a good reason and the real reason.
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A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.
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A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.
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A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
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A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.
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