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‘Are you lost, daddy’ I asked tenderly. ‘Shut up,’ he explained.
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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor...
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We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we can...
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I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable … but through it all I...
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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can...
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Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solicitude is the enemy of well-being.
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What’s terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you...
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When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure...
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No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to...
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The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility...