There never was a child so lovely but his mother wasn't glad to get him asleep.
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Life is a search after power.
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Knowledge is an antidote to fear.
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Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee, and do not try to make the universe a blind alley
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I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, then that it should be glittering and unsteady. I wish it to be sound and sweet, and not to need diet and bleeding.
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Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command
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