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“Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.”
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“When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.”
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“Just because there are a few hundred other people sharing your lunacy with you does not make you any saner.”
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“I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous,
or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular,
but because it never forgot what it could do.
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or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular,
but because it never forgot what it could do.
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“A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.”
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