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But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?

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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

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You try to give away what you want yourself.

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Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

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He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestow should never remember it.

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How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?

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I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose

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His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

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Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

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The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.

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