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It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck at only one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends.
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived US.
Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates.
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
I have found men more kind than I expected, and less just.
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
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Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
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You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.
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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
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There are times when sorrow seems the only truth.
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