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Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
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Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
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To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.
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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.
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Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.
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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
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In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.
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He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
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To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
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