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"You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one."
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"Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech."

"If you were brought up on a poor man's brand of drink and prefer that to this very day then do not pretend you like expensive wine."

"The beginning of wisdom is understanding that life is full of ongoing learning experiences."

"The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad habits of silence, having, as he explained once to Lady Agatha, said everything that he had to say before he was thirty."
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"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself."

"Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil."

"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."

"Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases."

"Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger."
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