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"There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave."
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"The best way to easily identify a counterfeit currency is to have a full exposure to the original currency. If you don't know your true vision, any satanic vision can cross your way and you might not know it."
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"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
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"All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."
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"Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge."
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"Knowledge is the key to the development of civilization."
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"Two things influence one's wisdom: remarkable experience and " evenmuch more " accumulated knowledge."
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"Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There is a brown pool on the table-it is running among your books and papers. Now you mop it up, clumsily, with your pocket-hankerchief. You then stuff your hankerchief back into your pocket-that is not Byron; that is so essentially you that if I think of you in twenty years' time, when we are both famous, gouty and intolerable, it will be by that scene: and if you are dead, I shall weep."
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"No doubt we should be, on the whole, much worse off than we are without our astonishing gift for illusion."
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"Humans are the villains, they are the killers. That's the truth.... for god sake!"
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"You are always a bishop with a ambition and second as a fisher."
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"I wonder. Of course maybe that isn't what they figure to do. Maybe they aren't going to do any such thing. But it's natural that's what they would do and I heard that word."
Curiosity
"You need the devotion to your work that a priest of God has for his."
Spiritual
"Cowardice as distinguished from panic is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination."
Psychology
"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened."
Books
"Hem,' he said, and I knew he was a critic now, since, in conversation, they put your name at the beginning of a sentence rather than at the end."
Criticism
"The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on."
Life
"I had drunk much wine and afterward coffee and Strega and I explained, winefully, how we did not do the things we wanted to do; we never did such things."
Emotion
"In order to write about life first you must live it."
Creativity
"The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last in it and not be smashed by it."
Life
"You're going to have things to repent, boy,' Mr. John had told Nick. 'That's one of the best things there is. You can always decide whether to repent them or not. But the thing is to have them."
Morality
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