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Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
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There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.
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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.
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I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark.
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I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse.
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Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
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