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It is easier to destroy knowledge, Ignosi, than to gather it.

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Everything has an end, if only you live long enough to see it.

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You lie; you always were a liar, and you always will be a liar.

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The acorn of ambition often grows into an oak from which men hang.

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Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought.

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Truly time should be measured by events, and not by the lapse of hours.

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Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.

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It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man.

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It is not wise to neglect the present for the future, for who knows what the future will be?

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How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?

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I have never observed that the religious are more eager to die than the rest of us poor mortals.

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The great wheel of Fate rolls on like a Juggernaut, and crushes us all in turn, some soon, some late

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Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds!

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As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.

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Laughter and bitterness are often the veils with which a sore heart wraps its weakness from the world.

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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of crowds, especially to those who are unaccustomed to them.

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For he was a merciful man, who loved not slaughter, although his fierce faith drove him from war to war.

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There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.

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Women love the last blow as well as the last word, and when they fight for love they are pitiless as a wounded buffalo.

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Adventurer — he that goes out to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one way or another.

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Ah! If man would but see that hope is from within and not from without - that he himself must work out his own salvation.

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The food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that we can bear to bite it.

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I am not a nervous man in a general way, and very little troubled with superstitions, of which I have lived to see the folly.

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We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.

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Let them be brought to the house of 'She-who-must-be-obeyed'. Bring forth the men, and let that which they have with them be brought forth also.

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The law of England is much more severe upon offences against property than against the person, as becomes a people whose ruling passion is money.

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From the east to the west sped the angels of the Dawn, from sea to sea, from mountain-top to mountain-top, scattering light with both their hands.

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My death is very near to me, and of this I am glad, for I desire to pursue the quest in other realms, as it has been promised to me that I shall do.

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Mistrust all men, and slay him whom thou mistrustest overmuch; and as for women, flee from them, for they are evil, and in the end will destroy thee.

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As for the girl, since she is well favoured, she shall brew the king's beer, and be numbered amongst the king's wives-unless, indeed, he is pleased to give her to me.

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