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- Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us…
- I often derive a peculiar satisfaction in conversing with the ancient and modern dead, — who yet live and speak excellently in their works. My…
- A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.
- I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of…
- Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.
- Time wastes too fast : every letter I trace tells me with what rapidity Life follows my pen ; the days and hours of it,…
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- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle