Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
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If there are any of you at the back who do not hear me, please don't raise your hands because I am also nearsighted.
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All that we are not stares back at what we are.
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Private faces in public places; Are wiser and nicer; Than public faces in private places.
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