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We are prisoners of ideas.
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We are prisoners of ideas.
We know better than we do, We do not yet possess ourselves.
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
Every artist was first an amateur.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Be and not seem.
Be careful what you set your heart on, for it will surely be yours.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.
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I have no idea how much money I've got.
Work and acquire and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.
I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.
The worst men often give the best advice.
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
I've had such a great track record in making a huge profit when the movies are smaller.
What dreadful weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
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