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The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be...
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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.
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In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never...
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Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things...
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I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what...
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Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a...
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Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise...
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It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing,...
Quote #1415
People find life entirely too time-consuming.