Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they are gathered together, blinking up to it with such vision as they have, scanning it from afar. . .
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Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
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