"Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders."

Being, Man, Wonders

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"Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders."

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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."

George Eliot, British Author

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"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people."

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"A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue."

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"The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions."

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"When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization."

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"Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint."

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"Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves."

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