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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#detail #devotion #finds #involves #minute

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#genuine #his #inherit #kill #pleasure

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#colors #existence #like #our #pursue

It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

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Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

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The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself. ↗

— Washington Allston

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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

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I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up. ↗

— Adam Arkin

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The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

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