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" The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning. "

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" You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword. "

" It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other. "

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" To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed. "

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