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I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

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A certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life.

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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment, to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure

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I love and I hate. How can this be, you ask in vain. I know not, but I feel it to be so and am wracked with pain.

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You are only as old as the woman you feel.

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He that commends me to mine own content
Commends me to the thing I cannot get.

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Childhood has no forebodings, but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.

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