Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves and the last which dies.

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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory he should never venture to lie.

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

In nine lifetimes you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.

In nine lifetimes you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.

When I play with my cat who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.

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    It is in the nature of things that joy arises in a person free from remorse.

    When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

    When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

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