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Just as the habit does not make the monk, the sceptre does not make the king.

Habit Make Sceptre King
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If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.

Write Books Life
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there are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.

Times Content Lose
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With the passage of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the color of our blood and the salt of our tears.

Time Social evolution Conscience
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the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily.

Human being Lack Egoism Born
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Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

Inside us Name Something
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As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.

Citizens Obligation Involved Changes
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Dignity has no price ... when someone starts making small concessions, in the end life loses all meaning.

Dignity Price Life Meaning
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Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Reading Tool Living Good life
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

Nothing Receive Relunctance Advice
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Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn

Books Legacies Mankind Generation
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A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.

Misery Nature Evil Temper
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.

Exempt Passions Tormented Solitude
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.

Valuable Man Attention Infirmities
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The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

Question Pleasures Life Happy
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Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

Life Reading Useful Authors
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True benevolence, or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathises with the distress of every creature capable of sensation

Compassion Existence Creature Sensation
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
Cheerfulness Health Mind Body
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Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

Crime Contemtible World Inconsistency
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

Easy Circumstances Enemies Innovations
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

Man Consider Wants
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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.

Important Difficult Mind Master
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We live as we dream--alone.

Live Dream Alone
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Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put it's trust in life!

Heart Hope Love Life
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The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future

Mind Capable Past Future
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My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see

Task Power Hear Feel
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

Words Foes Reality
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You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
Judge Man Foes Friends
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We can never cease to be ourselves.

We Cease Ourselves
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They had behind them, to my mind, the terrific suggestiveness of words heard in dreams, of phrases spoken in nightmares.

Mind Words Dreams Nightmares
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A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!

Writing Lost Truth Mind
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Youth is insolent; it is its right – its necessity; it has got to assert itself, and all assertion in this world of doubts is a defiance, is an insolence

Youth Insolent World Defiance
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The man who says that he has no illusions has at least that one.

Man Illusions
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To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence

Path Aspiration Human being Existence
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Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.

Press Government Play
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If we have power, we'll never give it up again unless we're carried out of our offices as corpses

Power Give Offices Corpses
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Give your goods to the poor: Christ. Property is theft - as long as it's not mine: Marx

Poor Christ Property Marx
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It is not propaganda’s task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.

Propaganda's Intelligent Task Success
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He was working hard at increasing his life span. He did it by cultivating boredom.

Working hard Life span Boredom
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He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it

Knew Literature Hoe Enjoy
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They couldn't keep Death out, but while she was in she had to act like a lady.

Death Act Lady
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.

Space Place Eternity Time
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Everything has its poetry.

Everything Poetry
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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Imagination Learning Wings Feet
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It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas.

Words Polish Ideas
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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

Pleasure Emotion Writer Reader
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Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

Choose Marriage Friend Woman
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

Superstitution Religion Souls Capable
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

Words Glass Obscure Vision
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Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Words Blur Clear
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