I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.
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Get your mind accustomed to doubting and your heart to being conciliatory.
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A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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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.
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If all mankind were to suddenly practice honesty, thousands of people would be sure to starve.
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The writer who can't at times throw away a thought about which another would have written dissertations, unworried whether or not the reader will find it, will never become a great writer.
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