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Rarest of all things on earth is the union in which both, by their contrasts, make harmonious their blending each supplying the defects of the helpmate, and completing, by fusion, one strong human soul.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Vanity, indeed, is the very antidote to conceit for while the former makes us all nerve to the opinion of others, the latter is perfectly satisfied with its opinion of itself.
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Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.
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The faults of a brilliant writer are never dangerous on the long run a thousand people read his work who would read no other inquiry is directed to each of his doctrines it is soon discovered what is sound and what is false the sound become maxims, and the false beacons.
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A sense of contentment makes us kindly and benevolent to others we are not chafed and galled by cares which are tyrannical because original. We are fulfilling our proper destiny, and those around us feel the sunshine of our own hearts.
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Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.
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Fate! There is no fate. Between the thought and the success God is the only agent. Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.
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When you borrow on your character, it is your character that you leave in pawn.
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