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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.
[ Humor ]
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In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
[ Solitude ]
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Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.
[ Pursuit ]
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Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
[ Amusement ]
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Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
[ Pain ]
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Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
[ Respectability ]
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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
[ Knowledge ]
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The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.
[ Anecdotes ]
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There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.
[ Doctors ]
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We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.
[ Complaints and Complaining ]
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