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Principles have no real force except when one is well fed.

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Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.

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Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.

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Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

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The way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run.

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The world began when I was born and the world is mine to win

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Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

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Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

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An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.

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My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

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