"If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble."
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"Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money."
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"Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature"
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"No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases."
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"To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also."
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"Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs."
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"There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick."
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"Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise."
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"Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice."
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"The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation."
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"Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion."
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"I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race."
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"We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are."
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"What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little."
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"We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive."
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"Fame is the thirst of youth."
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"Politics is the art of controlling your environment."
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"I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us."
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"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."
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"Money is our madness, our vast collective madness."
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