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"No truly great person ever thought themselves so."
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"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."

"A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure."

"Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology."

"I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system."

"When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman."
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"Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive."


"Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do."


"To write a genuine familiar or truly English style, is to write as any one would speak in common conversation who had a thorough command and choice of words, or who could discourse with ease, force, and perspicuity, setting aside all pedantic and oratorical flourishes."


"That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident."


"The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about."


"The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts."
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