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Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

Perfect Friendship Excellence Good
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The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.

Master Metaphor Genius Perception
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Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.
Man Himself Accept Negative
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“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”

Greatest Lesson Life Right
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Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy then an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then it becomes a tyrant and, in the last stage, just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.

Master Monster Reconcile Book
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The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it.
Proof Know Able Teach
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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Root Bitter Fruit Sweet
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The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.

Approximate Apprehend Sufficient Guess
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I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

Look Jump Foot Bars
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Not doing what we love in the name of greed is the very poor management of our lives.

Love Greed Poor Management
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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong

Life Things Right Wrong
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Chain Habit Light Felt
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I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.

Expensive Look Cheap Suit
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The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Chain Habit Heavy Broken
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You can’t make a good deal with a bad person.

Can't Make Deal Person
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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.
Love Wicked Obey Fear
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Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
Some People Care Love
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Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.

Weed Flower Once Know
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When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night’s sleep for the chance of extra profits.
Trade Profit Forced Choose
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Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

Sometime Thing Room Heart
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There comes a time when you ought to start doing what you want. Take a job that you love. You will jump out of bed in the morning. I think you are out of your mind if you keep taking jobs that you don’t like because you think it will look good on your resume. Isn’t that a little like saving up sex for your old age?

Mind Sex Saving Resume
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If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.

Sell Things Buy Need
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I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true
Believe Forever Good True
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Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.

Just Animal Large Kindness
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What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end

Wise Fool Beginning End
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But, of course, it isn't really Good-bye, because the Forest will always be there... and anybody who is Friendly with Bears can find it.

Course Forest Always Bear
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And really, it wasn’t much good having anything exciting like floods, if you couldn’t share them with somebody.

Much Good Flood Share
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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience - well, that comes from poor judgment.

Good Come Well Poor
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When stuck in the river, it is best to dive and swim to the bank yourself before someone drops a large stone on your chest in an attempt to hoosh you there.

Stuck River Dive Bank
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Culture, more than rule books, determines how an organization behaves.
Culture Rule Organization Behaves
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You must be independent and able to do for yourself. Then you do not have to marry a rich man; you can marry a poor one. And if it is wrong, you can go.

Independent Marry Rich Poor
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I never really mind what people say about me - I am far too unconventional and far too dedicated to being true to myself to let other people's disdain or nastiness upset me for long.

Disdain People True Mind
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I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.

Bills Choose Want Man
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Man Good Enough Memory
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The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing wit

Weapon Suicide Revenge Victim
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Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Common People Best Reason
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When the black and mortal blood of man has fallen to the ground ... who then can sing spells to call it back again?

Black Mortal Blood Ground
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I deeply respect literature and expect to gain insight from a book and to identify emotionally with its characters. I therefore avoid reading suspense novels or science fiction.

Respect Expect Novel Fiction
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It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

Thing One Wise Seem
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Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.

Purpose Feel Power Regret
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I have been schooled by my own suffering: I've learned the many ways of being purged.

Own Being Purge Schooled
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Better Silent Fool Doubt
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Respect the altar of Justice and do not, looking to profit, dishonor it by spurning with godless foot; for punishment will come upon you.

Respect Altar Profit Foot
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It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

Easy Foot Calamity Advice
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Nought is there in wealth that serves as bulwark 'gainst the subtle stealth Of Destiny and Doom.

Wealth Subtle Doom Destiny
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I only cook when I'm in love.

I Cook Love When
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A man dies not for the many wounds that pierce his breast, unless it be that life's end keep pace with death, nor by sitting on his hearth at home doth he the more escape his appointed doom.

Wound Pierce Doth Pace
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There is a time when fear is good and ought to remain seated as a guardian of the heart.

Time Fear Remain Guardian
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Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good.

Human Nature Change Future
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No bribes. Nothing that passes under the roof of a temple Or under the roof of the mouth, can appease heaven's anger Or deflect its aim.

Bribe Pass Under Temple
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