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There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is...
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Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in...
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Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is for a...
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Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.
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The Way of Heaven does not compete, And yet it skillfully achieves victory. It...
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Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the sense...
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What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow...
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The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and...
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In the state of nature…all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in...