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I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

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I have always found that angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise.

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Better reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.

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Memory says, I did that. Pride replies, I could not have done that. Eventually memory yields.

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You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

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The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

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You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.

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Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing.

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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of ths surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.

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