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Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.
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Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.
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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
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A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.
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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
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There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.
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No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.
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The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.
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The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.
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A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.
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A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.
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One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
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Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.
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