Bolesław Prus Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient.”
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“Don’t think about happiness. If it doesn’t come, there’s no disappointment; if it does come, it’s a surprise.”
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“Folly is as great as the sea, it will compass anything.”
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“For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.”
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“A life whose beginning we do not remember, and whose end we do not know.”
-- Bolesław Prus
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