"There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know."

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Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."

George Eliot, British Author

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T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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Voltaire, French Writer

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Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."

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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."

"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."

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