People do not lack strength; they lack will.

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Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.

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Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.

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If you don't believe in the solidity of iron bars, how dare you have menageries?

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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

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If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.

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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

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

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