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"Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect."
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"I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect."
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"Never assume you know it all. Ask questions."
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"Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect."
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"No one can do the learning for you."
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"Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism."
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"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."
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"Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets."
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"Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals."
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"No one knows a man better than himself."
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"The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing."
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"It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are."
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"For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible."
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"Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax."
Nature
"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."
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"It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain."
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"Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them."
Time
"To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them."
Time
"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."
Man
"Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think."
Art
"It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character."
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