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The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.

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I want a very ordered image, but I want it to come about by chance.

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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public. He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marryA young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

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Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

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I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.

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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

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Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

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Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.

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Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.

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A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

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If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs.

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States are great engines moving slowly.

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Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.

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Secrecy in suits goes a great way towards success.

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The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

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Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of the artist's mood. But it rarely is. Very often he may be in greatest despair and be painting his happiest paintings.

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In charity there is no excess.

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