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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
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No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
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Friends are born, not made.
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Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.
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One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
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The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.
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One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.
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A friend in power is a friend lost.
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There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
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There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
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Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
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They know enough who know how to learn.
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He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence " of talking without meaning " is never effaced.
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Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
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You say that love is nonsense. I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.
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Good men do the most harm.
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No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
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Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
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Morality is a private and costly luxury.
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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
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Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
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