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"I shall succeed!" He said to himself. So says the gambler; so says the great captain; but the three words that have been the salvation of some few, have been the ruin of many more.
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I wish you could see some of the girls I have genuinely had crushes on in my life. They're not the girls you would assume.
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"But they deserve their wealth," he added, "nobody grudges it to them. I declare when I was eating that truffle, I felt a glow about my heart that, if it were not indigestion, I think must have been gratitude; though that is an article I had not believed in.
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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
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I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you.
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Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life, —there, if one must speak out, the real man.
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I'm reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.
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In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But the works of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand; touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute.
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