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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.

How elastic Prejudices Grow Bend
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Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none.

Happiness Deem World Misery hides
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In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

World Shipmates Sin Pays
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The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.

Past Textbook Tyrants Bible
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Doesn't the devil live forever; who ever heard that the devil was dead? Did you ever see any person wearing mourning for the devil?

Devil Live forever Heard Dead
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In truth, a mature man who uses hair oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere.

Truth Mature man Hair oil Medicinally
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You cannot hide the soul.

You Hide Soul
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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.

Man Youth upwards Conviction Easiest way
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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run

Path Fixed Soul Grooved
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There is all the different in the world between paying and being paid.

Different World Paying Being paid
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At length I fell asleep, with the volume in my hand; and never slept so sound before

Length Fell asleep Volume Sound
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Art is the objectification of feeling

Art Objectification 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.

Some persons World Better proof Wise
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When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

Dead Hope Sins Were scarlet
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I have wandered all my life, and I have traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

Wandered My life Traveled Fulfillment
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For no one, in our long decline, So dusty, spiteful and divided, Had quite such pleasant friends as mine, Or loved them half as much as I did.

Long decline So dusty Spiteful Pleasant friends
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The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.

Control Production Wealth Human life
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From quiet homes and first beginning Out to the undiscovered ends There's nothing worth the wear of winning But laughter and the love of friends.

Homes Undiscovered ends Worth Love
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Oh, you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.

Should never Nobody Sure
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Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!

Write Wind blows Command words
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Friendship disappears Space Open Loneliness
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If we are to be happy, decent and secure of our souls: drink some kind of fermented liquor with one's food; go on the water from time to time; dance on occasions, and sing in a chorus...

Happy Decent Secure Soul
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Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

Loss Possession Death Life
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Do not, I beseech you, be troubled about the increase of forces already in dissolution. You have mistaken the hour of the night; it is already morning.

Beseech Troubled Increase Dissolution
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The prospect of refreshment at the charges of another is an opportunity never to be neglected by men of clear commercial judgment.

Prospect Refreshment Opportunity Men
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My husband and I didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact.

Agreement Husband Mutual Pact
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Life is a veil, its paths are dark and rough Only because we do not know enough When Science has discovered something more We shall be happier than we were before.

Life A veil Dark Rough
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When they married and gave in marriage They danced at the County Ball And some of them kept a carriage And the flood destroyed them all.

Married Danced Kept County ball
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If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery; there is no third course.

Restore Institution Escape restoring Slavery
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He served his god so faithfully and well That now he sees him face to face in hell.

Served His god Faithfully Face
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Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.

Bitterest Know So much Control over
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It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

Better Noble Risk Evils
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If a man insisted on always being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
Man insisted Being serious Relaxation Go mad
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

Men trust Ears Eyes
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Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal, while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before

Give up Designs Goal Victory
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After all, no one is stupid enough to prefer war to peace; in peace sons bury their fathers and in war fathers bury their sons.

No one Stupid Prefer War
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But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor's troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.

Mankind Troubles Market Exchanging them
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The most hateful grief of all human griefs is this, to have knowledge of the truth but no power over the event

Hateful grief Human Have knowledge Truth
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The saddest aspect of life is that there is no one on earth whose happiness is such that he won't sometimes wish he were dead rather than alive.

Saddest aspect Life Happiness Wish dead
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The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.

Worst pain Insight Power
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Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.

Happiness Fame Riches Inspire posterity
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In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

In peace Children Parent War violates
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Force has no place where there is need of skill

Force Place Need Skill
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks

Greet deeds Risk
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No one is so senseless as to choose of his own will war rather than peace, since in peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.

Senseless Choose War Peace
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Now stop your dancing; you wouldn't come out and dance when I played to you.

Now stop Dancing Come out Played to
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Now it happened that this Candaules was in love with his own wife; and not only so, but thought her the fairest woman in the whole world. This fancy had strange consequences.

Happened In love Wife Fairest woman
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I shall therefore discourse equally of both, convinced that human happiness never continues long in one stay.

Discourse equally Human happiness Continues long
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
How much Better Envied Pitied
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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

Many exceedingly Rich men Unhappy
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