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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."

"There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men."
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"I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?"

"But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example."

"There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence."

"International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge."

"The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived."

"A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere."
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