Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
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If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.
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Health is the first of all liberties, and happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
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Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.
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