From year to year this soul had progressively withered, slowly but inevitably. A dry eye goes with a dead soul. When he left prison, he had not shed a tear for nineteen years.

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There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

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When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

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He was fond of the tavern, and felt comfortable only among coarse language, military gallantries, easy beauties, and easy conquests.

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The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.

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The peculiar property of truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration?

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

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Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

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