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Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth . . . will gravely jot down in diaries the events of every day, and keep a regular debtor and creditor account with heaven, which shall always show a floating balance in their own favour.

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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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Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

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I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with

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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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What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.

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A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

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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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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

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Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.

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I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the most of it. That's the best way, ain't it?

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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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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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The teachings of elegant sayings Should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, Any price will be paid.

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A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

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The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.

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A dangerous quality, if real; and a not less dangerous one, if feigned.

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But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.

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He was bolder in the daylight-most men are.

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Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!

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