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Nothing made by brute force lasts.

Kebohongan yang paling kejam sering diceritakan dalam diam.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

Tidaklah cukup siap untuk pergi ke tempat tugas panggilan. Seorang pria harus berdiri di sekitar tempat dia dapat mendengar panggilan itu!

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.