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"To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life."
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"Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing."
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"Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it."
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"Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged."
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"The true art of memory is the art of attention."
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"The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction."
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"Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance."
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"A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favor cannot satisfy him"
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"Where there is no difficulty there is no praise"
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"Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others"
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