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Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Crack-Up" (1936)
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
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Socrates, In "Phaedo," sct. 98, by Plato.
I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.
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Jacopo Sannazaro
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
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Saint Jerome
The scars of others should teach us caution.
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Oscar Wilde
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
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Dominique Bouhours
The possibilities for mobilizing the experience, imaginations, and intelligence of workers, both employed and unemployed, are limitless.
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Paul Aubuchon
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others
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Oscar Wilde
There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.
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Thomas Merton
A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book.
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Sydney Smith
He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If I love you, what business is it of yours
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