The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
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I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.Georg C. Lichtenberg
The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
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To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
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He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
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It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
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The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.
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