The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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