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Man is a make-believe animal -- he is never so truly himself as wh

Man is a make-believe animal — he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part. – William Hazlitt

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We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects. – William Hazlitt

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The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. – William Hazlitt

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In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men. – Mary Renault

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I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops. – Oscar Wilde

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Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us. – George Eliot, Adam Bede

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I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self. – Martin Luther

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