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"Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable."
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"Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours."
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"As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing."
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"Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal."
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"There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose."
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"Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so."
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"Nothing endures but personal qualities."
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"There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence."
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"Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable."
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"Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable."
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"Nothing like a little judicious levity."
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"Stupidity often saves a man from going mad."
Man
"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold."
Friendship
"The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer."
Love
"Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?"
Home
"A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times."
Thought
"The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live."
Education
"A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time."
Time
"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor."
Science
"Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them."
People
"A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend."
Society
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