The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.
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I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it from a distance, but not too great a distance. How great Guess.
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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.
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What a chimera then is man What a novelty What a monster, what a chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy Judge of all things, feeble earthworm, depository of truth, a sink of uncertainty and error, the glory and the shame of the universe.
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