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“Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.”
― Memoirs of Hadrian: And, Reflections on the Composition of Memoirs of Hadrian
― Memoirs of Hadrian: And, Reflections on the Composition of Memoirs of Hadrian
“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.”
― Hocus Pocus
― Hocus Pocus
“No one who is young is ever going to be old.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own.”
― Moby-Dick; or, the Whale
― Moby-Dick; or, the Whale
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