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If a clever man commits a folly, it is not a small one.
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There is a poetry without figures of speech, which is a single figure of speech.
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I went on troubling myself about general ideas until I learnt to understand the particular achievements of the best men.
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It is only when a man knows little, that he knows anything at all. With knowledge grows doubt.
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The errors of a man are what make him really lovable.
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There are men who love their like and seek it; others love their opposite and follow after it.
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If a man has always let himself think the world as bad as the adversary represents it to be, he must have become a miserable person.
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Ill-favour and hatred limit the spectator to the surface, even when keen perception is added unto them; but when keen perception unites with good-will and love, it gets at the heart of man and the world; nay, it may hope to reach the highest goal of all.