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/ page 321 of 1205 /Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
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None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free.
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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.
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I call architecture frozen music.
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The deed is everything, the glory naught.
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Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
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All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
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If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
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Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
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The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
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All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
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I chopped down the house that you had been saving to live in next summer....
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As the adjective is lost in the sentence, So I am lost in your eyes, ears, nose, and throat—...
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"Something there is that doesn't hump a sump," He said; and through his head she saw a cloud That seemed to twinkle.
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He's come to die Or else to laugh, for hay is dried-up grass When you're alone."
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