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Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies. It was my tongue that swore; my heart is unsworn. A good man never dies. Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost. Prospect is often better than possession. The past is a funeral gone by. Confidence ... is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life. The world is my country, the human race is my race. The spirit of man is my god, the future of man is my heaven. Flattery makes friends, truth enemies. It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh. I'm not playing with my brother-in-law today. Would you play with a man who improves his lie and cheats on his score? Well, neither would he! If a man wakes up famous he hasn't been sleeping. There is no such thing as a little garlic. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held, and not in the dogma or want of dogma, that the danger lies. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. Leap, and the net will appear. The will is the strong blind man who carries on his shoulders the lame man who can see. Melancholy men are of all others the most witty. Never have a friend that's poorer than yourself.
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