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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.

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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.

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There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.

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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

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The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

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An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

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All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

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There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

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Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

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It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

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Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

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The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

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Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

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Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

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Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

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All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

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In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

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I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

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