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"It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else."
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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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"There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love."
Friendship
"If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago."
Literature
"There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion."
Religion
"Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote."
Man
"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
Acting
"The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature."
Nature
"There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you."
Heart
"As is our confidence, so is our capacity."
Confidence
"The art of pleasing consists in being pleased."
Art
"The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough."
Friendship
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