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"The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the call are also blessed. But worthless who call not, heed not, but rest."

"Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart."

"We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things."

"Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet."

"Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit."
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"We are confident that evil can never happen to us until it does."

"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."

"All evil is good become cancerous."

"Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them."

"But other vampire stories? Well, no, I really haven't read too many, and I can't say I'm crazy about romantic vampires anyway - to me the vampire is simply an evil monster."
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