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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

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Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.

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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

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If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

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I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.

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The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

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I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

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We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

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Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.

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Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
And toss them on the wheels of Chance.

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