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Walter Savage Landor

"Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend."

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"Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend."

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"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!""

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"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."

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"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."

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"A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."

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"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."

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"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."

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

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"A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter."

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"Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can."

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"Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good."
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"Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!"
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"Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven."
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"The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander."
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