The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

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Books like friends should be few and well-chosen.

Books, like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Every man who attacks my belief diminishes in some degree my confidence in it and therefore makes m

Every man who attacks my belief diminishes in some degree my confidence in it and therefore makes me uneasy, and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

If your determination is fixed I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to dilige

If your determination is fixed I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse

Nobody can write the life of a man, but those who have eat, and drunk, and lived in social intercourse with him.

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    Good night and sweet dreams, my love!

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    Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

    Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

    Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.

    Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.

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