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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
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The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
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It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
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If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
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Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
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Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!
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Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
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I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
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There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.
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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.
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