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"The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval."
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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."

"Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom."
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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."
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"Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest."

"When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience."

"I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow."

"This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy."

"If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept."

"If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short."

"To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism."
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