Reflection makes men cowards.
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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.William Hazlitt
No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
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The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
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So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.
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Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken.
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The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.
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