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The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule of Subtraction as to the merits and successes of others, and never in Addition as to their own.

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There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.

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The world is continuous flux and is impermanent.

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Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit - the habit of nine-tenths of the world - of believing that all was right about me, because I was used to it.

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Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

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I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the most of it. That's the best way, ain't it?

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All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!

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Time is not an empirical concept. For neither co-existence nor succession would be perceived by us, if the representation of time did not exist as a foundation a priori.

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"Lord bless you!" said Mr. Omer, resuming his pipe, "a man must take the fat with the lean; that's what he must make up his mind to, in this life. "

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The teachings of elegant sayings Should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, Any price will be paid.

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The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow.

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But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.

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The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid.

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I will teach you the Truth and the Path leading to the Truth.

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I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.

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When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others.

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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

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Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.

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Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.

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It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge?

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