One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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The reason why lovers are never weary of one another is this - they are always talking of themselves.
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Whenever Fortune sends Disasters to our Dearest Friends, Although we outwardly may grieve, We oft are laughing in our sleeve.
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Great praise is heaped on prudence yet there is not the most insignificant event of which it can make us sure.
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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.
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If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative.
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When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied.
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