"Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty."

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"The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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"He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute."

Stephen King, American Author

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"Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame."

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"We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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"While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation."

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"Writing is the act of finding out what I think."

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"The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."

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"Science is nothing but perception."

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"What you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know can hurt you very much."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences."

"He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute."

"Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame."

"We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection."

"While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation."

"Writing is the act of finding out what I think."

"The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism."

"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."

"Science is nothing but perception."

"What you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know can hurt you very much."

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"The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation."

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"Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds."

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"A majority is always better than the best repartee."

"Fear makes us feel our humanity."

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"Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions."