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Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

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A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

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All is but illusion and disaster.

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The Jews have always been waiting for a Messiah, but their Messiah is for them only, not for us, a Messiah ho will give them mastery over the Christians.

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He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

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We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results.

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Writing is the painting of the voice.

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You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

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As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

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It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.

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Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupts’ effects, so as to defraud their creditors.

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You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.

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There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.

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Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

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Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.

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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.

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Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.

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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.

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