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How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks
I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London
Do you wish people to speak well of you? Then do not speak at all yourself
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know
It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself
You have to accept that sometimes that's how things happen in this world. People's opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.
Never Let Me Go
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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