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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

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Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

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We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands upon himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

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Nothing ever goes away.

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Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.

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There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

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If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.

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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

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