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The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

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Journalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it themselves.

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When in Turkey, do as the turkeys do.

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Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

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Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune.

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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.

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Nothing is as heady as the wine of misfortune.

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There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.

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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance

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White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion and of the lamb, Prayer! Prayer will give you the key of heaven! Bold and pure as innocence, strong, like all that is single and simple, this glorious, invincible Queen rests, nevertheless, on the material world; she takes possession of it; like the sun, she clasps it in a circle of light.

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He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved.

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I am a galley slave to pen and ink.

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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.

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Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity?

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Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.

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Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying in stores of knowledge and energy, so that they shall not sink under the weight of responsible posts that recede from them, schemers come and go who are wealthy in words and destitute of ideas, astonish the ignorant, and creep into the confidence of those who have a little knowledge.

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A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.

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Most geometricians, chemists, mathematicians, and great scientists submit religion to reason only to discover a problem as unsolvable as that of squaring a circle.

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

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Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

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