"Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species."

Being, Laughter, Reason

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"Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species."

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"All great peoples are conservative."

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"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."

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"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."

Silence

"The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity."

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"Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries."

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"It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see."

Heart

"A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus."

Perspective

"To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself."

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"I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance."

Wisdom

"Thought is the parent of the deed."

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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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Voltaire, French Writer

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