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Rainer Maria Rilke Poet, Novelist
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"It wasn't his, it wasn't my fault, we both had nothing except patience, but Death has none. I saw him come (how meanly!) and I watched him as he took and took: none of it I could claim as mine."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"Read proudly--put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed, but I shall not make-believe I am charmed."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"Every man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey than others, and detected faults and follies which escape vulgar observation."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"Shakespeare never had six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven, but this does not refute my general assertion."

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Thomas Carlyle Essayist, Historian, Novelist
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"The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. The greatest of faults, I should say is to be conscious of none."

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Thomas Carlyle Essayist, Historian, Novelist
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"Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with; as if, observes our author himself, any originality but our own could be expected to content us! In fact all strange thing are apt, without fault of theirs, to estrange us at first view, and unhappily scarcely anything is perfectly plain, but what is also perfectly common."

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Sharon Stone Actress
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"I'm not big on plastic surgery for me but I don't fault it for someone who wants it for them. You have to do what makes you feel good, but it's not my thing."

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