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Lap-dogs and blood-hounds enjoy the greatest respect at court; house-dogs and no dogs at all are not even considered.

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Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simple and the natu...

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To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.

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Uneducated people are unfortunate in that they do grasp complex issues, educated people, on the other hand, often do not understand simplicity...

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You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free—but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be.

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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!

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Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.

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Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger.

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Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could i...

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The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.

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The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena exte...

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Just as the queen bee, the highest-ranking, peerless creature of her hive, is surrounded by lowly drones to please her, whereas the workers pr...

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Why do villains have so much influence? Because the honest people are terribly dense.

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The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

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As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.

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Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.

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To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.

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There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

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There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

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He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces that he haith not seen shall bless him.

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