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Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.


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Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.



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Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.



We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.



As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.



Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.

Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.



Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.



What we love to do we find time to do.

What we love to do we find time to do.



Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.

Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.



When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all.

When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all.





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