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The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

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When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

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One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.

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There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

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I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

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The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.

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A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.

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When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.

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No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

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Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.

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He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.

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It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

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Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

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There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

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Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest man to do.

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There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

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The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

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Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.

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A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.

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Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.

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The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.

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Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

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This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.

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Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

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Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.

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