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The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

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Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

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To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

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Human kind cannot bear much reality.

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Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it.

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Change is scientific, progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

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I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

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Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.

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Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang the best.

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Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot

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