“Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.”
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Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
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Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.
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The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
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