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"He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery."
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"Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it."
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"Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me."
"The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it."
"Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads."
"What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?"
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"The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism."
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