It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.
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To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
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He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
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