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Nature is nobody’s ally.

Herman Melville

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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
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Assumption Criticisms Humanity Poor Rich
Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
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Mistake Set Sign Strength Talk Way Weakness
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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Failure Greatness Himself Man Struggle
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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Compromise Edge Ragged Truth
All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
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Age Crack Life Lying Reality Round Sharp World
Nature is nobody’s ally.
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Friendship Nature One Liner
You cannot hide the soul.
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Hide One Liner Soul
See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Growth Love Oneself Prejudice See
Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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Friendship Help Illusion One Liner
There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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Care Enterprise Method Order True
We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
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Below Further Future Hope Past Present Reach Scale
Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
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Beautiful Magic Reality Strength
Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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Rule Sleep Thinking Yourself
I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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Appearance Handsome Judgement Myself Personality
Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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Animal Interfere Man Money
Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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Animal Honor One Liner Respect

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