The Remarkable Rocket: Quotes

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• "I am always thinking about myself, and I expect everybody else to do the same. That is what is called sympathy."

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• "The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated."

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• "A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes"

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• "It is a very dangerous thing to know one's friends."

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• "hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do"

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