The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
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All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.
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There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.
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When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
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A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
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Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
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The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.
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The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.
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Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.
