"In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed."
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"God will lead you into a deliverance where the means that delivers you will be those who would destroy you."
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"Crying over what's gone won't find the present."
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"There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability."
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"Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority."
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"Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly."
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"The shortest answer is doing the thing."
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"New faces have more authority than accustomed ones."
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"A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations."
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"Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one."
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"The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it."
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"I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget."
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"I know how men in exile feed on dreams."
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"When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?"
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"Good literature makes your head throb heartlike"
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"If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him."
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"We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true."
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"Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!"
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"An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy."
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"Every man's memory is his private literature."
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