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"A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still."
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"I prefer truth-based entertaining idealism."
"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem."
"Sadly enough, individual liberty remains the ideal of revolutionary thinkers even in the 21st Century."
"The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest."
"What you call life is but a dream, and reality is relative."
"Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds."
"None could be the most perfect. If indeed any, it is only perfect."
"There was something better in life than this rubbish, if only he could get to it-love-nobility-big spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science could reach, but they existed for ever, full of woods some of them, and arched with majestic sky and a friend. . ."
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"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair."
"It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached."
"There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex."
"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."
"Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure."
"While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it."
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