"The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?"
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"Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman."
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"When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees."
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"You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you."
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"Work like you don't need the money."
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"We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live."
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"Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth."
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"We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future."
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"What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight."
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"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it."
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"Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains."
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"Politeness is the flower of humanity."
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"Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision."
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"A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times, without being double-minded. There can never be mental duplicity where there is sincerity."
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"Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other."
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"Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity."
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"How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum."
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"How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound."
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"Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features"
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"Our worries always come from our weaknesses."
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