A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow.
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Everyone’s a millionaire where promises are concerned.
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Nothing is stronger than habit.
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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
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It’s right to learn, even from the enemy.
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Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
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There is a certain pleasure in weeping.
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It is the poor man who’ll ever count his flock.
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In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
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What we have been, or now are, we shall not be tomorrow.
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What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.
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Beauty is a fragile gift.
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Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
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Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.
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Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, ‘I believe,’ three times.
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