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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
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Alexander Pope |
The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
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Alexander Pope |
To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
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Alphonse de Lamartine |
A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
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Edward Young |
If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.
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Franz Kafka |
Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.
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Franz Kafka |
Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
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George Byron |
Because in Russia you were able to triumph with the help of a large class of poor peasants, you represent things in such a way, as if we in Western Europe are also going to have that help.
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Herman Gorter |
Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.
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Hesiod |
I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone.
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Richard Armour |
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
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Robert Browning |
Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
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Saadi |
Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
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Samuel Butler |
If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.
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Sidney Lanier |
A lie never lives to be old.
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Sophocles |
Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.
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Stanislaw Lec |
The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.
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Stephane Mallarme |
I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
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Tahar Ben Jelloun |
This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.
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Tahar Ben Jelloun |
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