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Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost...
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If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting,...
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have...
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Life, at best, is completely unpredictable.
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Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When...
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Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but...
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Against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain. (Mit der Dummheit kaempfen Goetter selbst...
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Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner...
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I wonder how so insupportable a thing as a bookseller was ever permitted to...
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We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner...