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- What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
- Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.
- Nora Ephron
- There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
- James Branch Cabell (1879 - 1958)
- Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924), The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
- Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
- Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)
- An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.
- Nicholas Chamfort (1741 - 1794)
- In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.
- Nicholas Chamfort (1741 - 1794)
- All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
- The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
- Ferdinand Foch (1851 - 1929)
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