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In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.

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Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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Boundary Divorce Relationship
The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Book Distance
Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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God Man One Liner Reason Sleep
To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Accident Eyes Failure Perspective Success
RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Assassination Character Weapon
In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
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Activity Diversity Equality Heart Human
You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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Help Religion Stupidity
LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Law Oneself Skills
Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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Harm Patient Prescription Situation
Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Betrayal Character Cheating Virtue
MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.
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Brain Fact Himself Mindset Mysterious Nature
Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
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Age Head Himself See Thinking Wisdom
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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Convincing Doubt Enemy Man Person
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Fall Hard Himself Man
I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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Myself Reputation Thinking
Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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Affair Assurance Future Happiness Prosperity Time

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