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All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.

Berthold Auerbach

With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.
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Bird Nature Swamp
The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
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Age Men Retains Silver
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
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Falsehood Purity Truth
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
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Art Money Valor
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.
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Men Selfish Vanity
People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening into the other.
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Eye Long Maturity
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Improvement Inspirational Progress Self

All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.

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