"Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise"
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"Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far."
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"Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it."
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"In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears."
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"There are ten men in me and I do not know or understand one of them."
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"We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough."
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"Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool."
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"Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature."
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"Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth."
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"Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune."
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"What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?"
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"For children preserve the fame of a man after his death."
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"The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen."
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"And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin."
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"All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram."
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"The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me."
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"The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population."
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"Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest."
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"I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself."
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"A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match."
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