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One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
- George Bernard Shaw

Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
- Robert Frost

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.
- Mark Twain

Stendhal Quotes and Quotations

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

One can acquire everything in solitude but character.

If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.

Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

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