"If a woman possesses manly virtues, she is to be run away from; and if she does not possess them, she runs away herself."
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"Completely true to nature!' - what a lie: / How could nature ever be constrained into a picture? / The smallest bit of nature is infinite! / And so he paints what he likes about it. / And what does he like? He likes what he can paint!"
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"The noble type of man feels himself to be the determiner of values, he does not need to be approved of, he judges 'what harms me is harmful in itself', he knows himself to be that which in general accords honour to things, he creates values."
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"He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar."
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"Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!"
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"How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?"
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"What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning."
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"Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath."
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"History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history."
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"When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence."
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"The true and lasting genius of humour does not drag you thus to boxes labelled 'pathos,' 'humour,' and show you all the mechanism of the inimitable puppets that are going to perform. How I used to laugh at Simon Tapperwit, and the Wellers, and a host more! But I can't do it now somehow; and time, it seems to me, is the true test of humour. It must be antiseptic."
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"The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too."
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"A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from."
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"Hey, ah, does anyone want a cookie or something? Oh yeah. A cookie. That would make everything better. Dunked in a shot of tequila , maybe? Or better yet, just the bottle? Yeah, that ought to do it."
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"Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life."
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"the less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do."
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"People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic."
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"When one does nothing, one believes oneself responsible for everything."
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"That is exactly the writer's problem. What does literature stand for in a hungry world?"
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"the Lord does not so much look at the work that is done, as at the faithfulness of our hearts in doing it."
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