I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.
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One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one.
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We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.
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Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.
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The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.
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