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A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.
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All the historical books which contain no lies are extremely tedius.
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Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when He did not want to sign.
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His sole concern with work was considering how he might best avoid it.
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Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and butter.
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Ignorance is the condition necessary, I do not say for happiness, but for existence itself. If we knew all, we could not endure life for an hour.
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It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them. The only books I have in my library are those that other folks have lent me.
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The good critic is he who narrates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
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The man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears, for anything from the uncertain events of the future.
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When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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