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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

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The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

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Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

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So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.

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I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

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We are what we pretend to be, but we better be very careful what we pretend.

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What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

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