What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.
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I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed - and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet.
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A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
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No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English.
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For I was a collaborator with Destiny, not one who put a pistol to its head and demanded particular treasures
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Pessimism is a very easy way out when you're considering what life really is, because pessimism is a short view of life - If you take a long view, I do not see how you can be pessimistic about the future of man or the future of the world
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