"I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence."
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"One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy."
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"And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better."
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"My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy."
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"History repeats itself."
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"Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others."
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"One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!"
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"People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool's caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else's are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy."
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"The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness."
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"Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever."
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"No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from."
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"And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it."
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"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."
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"Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw."
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"Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness."
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"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity."
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"There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows."
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"A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe."
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"It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love-this hunger of the heart-as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit to the yoke, and change the face of the world."
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"How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice; it is a river that flows from the foot of the Invisible Throne and flows by the path of obedience."
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