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| For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity. | | Uncategorized | |
| Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men & women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different. | | Friends; Sex | |
| Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree,it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different. | | Friends | |
| Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. | | Friends | |
| Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is. | | Friends; Friendship | |
| Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots. | | Friendship | |
| Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better. | | Uncategorized | |
| Great is this organism of mud and fire, terrible this vast, painful, glorious experiment | | Greatness | |
| Habit is stronger than reason | | Habit | |
| Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves. | | Uncategorized | |
| Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience. | | Happiness | |
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| History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. | | History | |
| History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. | | Uncategorized | |
| I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. | | Uncategorized | |
| I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty. | | Uncategorized | |
| If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved. | | Uncategorized | |
| In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality. The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are | | Intelligence | |
