I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myse
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In fear, one flees. One can pretend to fear, accordingly, by pretending to flee, a vigorous activity in which there may be little
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I am looking over Self Control again, & my opinion is
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To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discr
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Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that work on others count
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The glance is natural magic. The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the s
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So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea, describes his
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Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide: him all tongues greet, all honors crow
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Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at R
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And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.
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