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"Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it."

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"Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself."

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"A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents."

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"Before we blame, we should first see if we can't excuse."

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"Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him."

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"Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together."

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"First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe."

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"He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards."

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"He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage he won't encounter many rivals."

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"I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies, for the world needs such men more than heaven does."

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"I cannot say whether things will get better if we change what I can say is they must change if they are to get better."

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"It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists."

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"Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself."

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"Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all."

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"One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything."

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"Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own."

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"There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible."

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"The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle."

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"To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation."

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"To read means to borrow to create out of one's readings is paying off one's debts."

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"To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still."

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"What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes"

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"With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another."

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