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The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.

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

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

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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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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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He was bolder in the daylight-most men are.

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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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"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones."

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A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

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... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God!

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The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid.

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

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'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?'

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Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.

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Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased.

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Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

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

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