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"Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life-the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within it-can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances."
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"Never believe all that you hear. Always verify the original source of information."
"But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought that we delivered ourselves over."
"Nothing will be impossible for the one who reads."
"Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way."
"No one knows a man better than himself."
"It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle."
"A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect."
"Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous."
"Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets."
"Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions."
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"Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder."
"I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear."
"Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return."
"An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry."
"Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet."
"I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best."
"A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe."
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