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Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

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Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

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. . . .When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer - say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep - it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them...

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Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

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You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.

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A compliment is a statement of an agreeable truth; flattery is a statement of an agreeable untruth.

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Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man.

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Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.

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May your home always be too small to hold all of your friends.

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Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

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