He didn't at all see why the busy bee should be proposed as a model to him; he supposed the Bee liked to make honey, or he wouldn't do it -- nobody asked him. It was not necessary for the bee to make such a merit of his tastes. Bleak House
Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else. Discourses
In most cases, people, even the most vicious, are much more naive and simple-minded than we assume them to be. And this is true of ourselves too. The Karamazov Brothers
On the whole, more men had perhaps escaped into the war than from it. Beware of Pity
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