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Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
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Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.
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You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.
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Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.
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Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.
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It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.
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It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.
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It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.
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It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.
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There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.
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The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
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A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
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