“When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.”
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I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.
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Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.
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The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
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