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"Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with."
Power
"Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long."
Friendship
"It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering."
Suffering
"There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas."
People
"Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left."
History
"I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear."
Difficulty
"There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evil-doer."
Idea
"Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead."
Genius
"Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them."
Saying
"One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge."
Knowledge
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"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace."
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Personal Development
"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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Personal Development
"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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Personal Development
"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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Personal Development
"Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine."
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Personal Development
"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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Personal Development
"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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Personal Development
"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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Personal Development
"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."
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Personal Development
"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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Personal Development
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