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This reminds me, Godmother, to ask you a serious question. You are as wise as wise can be (having been brought up by the fairies), and you can tell me this: Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?

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Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed

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Trifles make the sum of life.

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Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.

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The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule of Subtraction as to the merits and successes of others, and never in Addition as to their own.

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The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money.

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And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

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He was bolder in the daylight-most men are.

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... No, the office is one thing, and private life is another. When I go into the office, I leave the Castle behind me, and when I come into the Castle, I leave the office behind me.

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He was bolder in the daylight-most men are.

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Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

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Enjoy the questions and forget the answers.

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When I have heard him talking to Papa during the sittings for the picture, I have sat wondering whether it could be that he has no belief in anybody else, because he has no belief in himself.

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"It's nothing," returned Mrs Chick. "It's merely change of weather. We must expect change."

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The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow.

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Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

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All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!

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This reminds me, Godmother, to ask you a serious question. You are as wise as wise can be (having been brought up by the fairies), and you can tell me this: Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?

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There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.

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"All conditioned things are impermanent" - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.

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