Prose talks and poetry sings.
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The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.Franz Grillparzer
Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.
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Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
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I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
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