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To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment.

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There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.

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It is not down in any map; true places never are.

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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.

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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

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There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.

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Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?

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