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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Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

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To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

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

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If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground.

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The social edifice of the past rests on three columns,—the priest, the king, and the hangman.

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

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

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The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

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Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.

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