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"The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth."
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"How we choose to perceive affects how we partake of reality, narrowly or completely."

"We often focus on what is wrong and complain that nothing is beautiful."

"People see what they expect to see."

"The devil was always in the detail. And here the detail was certainly devilish."

"I saw the world in black and white instead of the vibrant colours and shades I knew existed."

"Life is an illusion which wisely prevents you from seeing yourself fully."

"When I deeply look at a pious, I see no affection but fear; and when I look at an atheist, I see no fear but conceit!"

"It is always easier to find fault and criticize than it is to find beauty and appreciation."

"Materialistic perception of life makes us spiritually shortsighted."

"Education means nourishing the mind and make it develop in order to see beyond the limitations of current social perception."
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"Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return."

"An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry."

"Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet."

"A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe."

"It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us."

"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."
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