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Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

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The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.

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The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.

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I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.

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The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

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Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made.

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Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

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The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

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A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

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Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said "erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.

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Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

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The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.

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There are three stages in the revelation of truth. The first is to be ridiculed, the second is to be resisted and the third is to be considered self-evident.

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Our religions will never at any time take root; the ancient wisdom of the human race will not be supplanted by the events in Galilee. On the contrary, Indian wisdom flows back to Europe, and will produce a fundamental change in our knowledge and thought.

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We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.

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The highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind.

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One should use common words to say uncommon things

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If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.

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Everything that happens, happens of necessity.

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To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake

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