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"No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own."
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"Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates."
"Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave."
"Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled."
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