"Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not."
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing second, the gratification of one's family and friends and lastly, the solid cash.“
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it."
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them."
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"All brave men love for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests."
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature."
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-Stephen King
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-P. J. O'Rourke
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"As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live."
-Pope John Paul II
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