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Anyone, without any great penetration, may distinguish the dispositions consequent on wealth; for its possessors are insolent and overbearing, from being tainted in a certain way by the getting of their wealth. For they are affected as though they possessed every good; since wealth is a sort of standard of the worth of other things; whence every thing seems to be purchasable by it.

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No matter what an architect may be at home, he becomes a monumentalist when he comes to Washington.

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The happiness that may emerge from taking a second look is central to Proust's therapeutic conception. It reveals the extent to which our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.

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Some may study side by side, and yet be asunder when they come to the logic of things.

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A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.

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I encourage you to accept that you may not be able to see a path right now, but that doesn't mean it's not there.

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Never do today what you can do tomorrow, because something may occur to make you regret your premature action.

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The clergyman who lives in the city may have piety, but he must have taste.

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Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.

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The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

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Things which we see are not by themselves what we see ... It remains completely unknown to us what the objects may be by themselves and apart from the receptivity of our senses. We know nothing but our manner of perceiving them.

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In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality.

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Now there is any amount of this nonsense cropping up among American cranks. Anybody may propose to establish coercive Eugenics; or enforce psychoanalysis that is, enforce confession without absolution.

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I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

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O Blackbird! sing me something well: While all the neighbors shoot thee round, I keep smooth plats of fruitful ground, Where thou may'st warble, eat and dwell.

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So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition!

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Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

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It's better to be born lucky than rich. If you're rich, you may lose your money, but if you're born lucky, you will always have more money.

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War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

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Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.

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