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| A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment |
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| Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet. |
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| He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit. |
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| It is a mark of insincerity of purpose to spend one's time in looking for the sacred Emperor in the low-class tea shops |
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| The province of philosophy is not so much to prevent calamities befalling as to demonstrate that they are blessings when they have taken place |
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| There are few situations in life that cannot be resolved promptly, and to the satisfaction of all concerned, by either suicide, a bag of gold, or thrusting a despised antagonist over a precipice on a dark night |
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