"Here let dead poetry rise once more to life."
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"A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth."
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"What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?"
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"Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead."
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"Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist."
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"The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum."
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"When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind."
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"Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world."
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"All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."
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"Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well."
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"Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used."
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"There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie."
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"To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all."
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"Happiness can exist only in acceptance."
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"Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading."
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"Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it."
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"Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value."
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"What is my life if I am no longer useful to others."
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"What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find."
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"A loafer always has the correct time."
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