Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.Michel de Montaigne
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
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There is no man so good who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the law, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
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What do I know.
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