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| The majority of men devote the greater part of their lives to making their remaining years unhappy. |
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| The noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them |
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| The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one. |
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| The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation. |
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| The pleasure of criticizing robs us of the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things |
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| The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things. |
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| The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned. |
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| The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education. |
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| The same vices that are gross and insupportable in others we do not notice in ourselves |
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| The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes. |
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| The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself. |
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| The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love |
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| The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored. |
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| There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast! |
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| There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking |
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| There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live |
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| There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others. |
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| There are only two ways of getting on in the world either by one's own industry, or by the stupidity of others |
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| There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live. |
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| There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it |
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