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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

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All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.

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The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.

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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.

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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

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Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.

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Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

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