“We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.”
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
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Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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