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“The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.”
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“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”
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“Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.”
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“Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.”
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“To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.”
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“Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.”
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“You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.”
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“All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.”
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“Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.”
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“The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.”
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“The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.”
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“Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.”
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“It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.”
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“Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.”
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“An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.”
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“Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.”
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“Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.”
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“When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.”
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“All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.”
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“If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.”
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“It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.”
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“Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.”
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“The history of art is the history of revivals.”
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“The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.”
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“Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.”
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“Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.”
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“Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.”
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“There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.”
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