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"I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world."
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"I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself."
"The world is the puzzle, itself; but it is always in principle."
"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"
"My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world."
"I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly."
"It is normal for me to wake and find myself writing in the dark... or to be out of my tomb, caught in an unearthly world, alive with the images that haunt me."
"We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills."
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"It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world."
"Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult."
"Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure."
"The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."
"You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."
"The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne."
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