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- If you want to make people weep, you must weep yourself. If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious.
- Giovanni Jacopo Casanova
- When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
- The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in men. Ordinary people see no difference between men.
- Pascal
- The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this because I want you to know that if you see something worthwhile in what I am doing, it is not by accident but because of real direction and purpose.
- Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890)
- Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
- George Washington (1732 - 1799)
- My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.
- Mary Shelly
- The more I study the world, the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anything durable.
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
- Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- Genius is nothing but labor and diligence.
- William Hogarth
- There are persons who always find a hair in their plate or soup for the simple reason that, when they sit down before it, they shake their heads until one falls in.
- Christian Friedrich Hebbel
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