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"Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious."
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"Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean."
"Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?"
"We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing."
"There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own."
"I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."
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