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All wealth is the product of labor.

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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common.

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Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

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Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

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The discipline of desire is the background of character.

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All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

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My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.

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Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that

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I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world, is discovery.

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