The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.
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Dying is a troublesome business there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart but death is a splendid thing --a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.
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Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid of.
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I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
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