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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.

Herman Melville

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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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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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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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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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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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