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"Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent."
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"Though the earth contains greater energy and mass than any single being, linked together, "people make the world go-round"."
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"William Cowper said that God made the country, and man made the town. If it was the opposite, there would be no country; because town can be created from the country but the country cannot be created from the town!"
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"Bureaucracy is a huge beast; deeply rooted, it exists even among artists; it's an almost losing battle against it."
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"Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him."
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"Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities."
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"Shyness is a luxury reserved for those who are above the poverty line. To a beggar, being shy is deadly."
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"When a man's girlfriend's parents ask him what it is that he does for a living: they're not really concerned about him, they're concerned about their daughter's tummy."
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"The use of fashions in thought is to distract men from their real dangers. We direct the fashionable outcry of each generation against those vices of which it is in the least danger, and fix its approval on the virtue that is nearest the vice which we are trying to make endemic. The game is to have them all running around with fire extinguishers whenever there's a flood; and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gone under."
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"Every person should decide for himself how happy, or unhappy, our society might be."
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"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
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"Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent."
Society
"Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future."
Life
"The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it."
People
"Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls."
Gold
"It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it."
Abuse
"Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors."
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"It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit."
Reflection
"Vices are often habits rather than passions."
Habit
"Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent."
Talent
"Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity."
Fame
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