It is as impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself, as for a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time.
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We are parlor soldiers. The rugged battle of fate, where strength is born, we shun.
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There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance that imitation is suicide that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
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We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves....
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