He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.
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The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.G. C. Lichtenberg
The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.
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I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.
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The second sight possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events. I believe they possess this gift because they don't wear trousers.
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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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