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“Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me.”

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Who lives content with little possesses everything.

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He [Moliere] pleases all the world, but cannot please himself.

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Now two punctilious envoys, Thine and Mine Embroil the earth about a fancied line; And, dwelling much on right and much on wrong, Prove…

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No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.

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With poverty everything becomes frightful.

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Something of calumny always sticks.

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A fop sometimes gives important advice.

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Of all the animals which fly in the air, walk on the land, or swim in the sea, from Paris to Peru, from Japan…

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Nature always springs to the surface and manages to show what she is. It is vain to stop or try to drive her back.…

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Though you be sprung in direct line from Hercules, if you show a lowborn meanness, that long succession of ancestors whom you disgrace are…

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A burlesque word is often a powerful sermon.

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Let a single complete action, in one place and one day, keep the theatre packed to the last.

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No one can come to me unless the Father draws him.

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I would warn against holsters with devices for quick-draw. Devices always fail when you need them most.

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It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.

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If you were to draw Bugs, the easiest way is to learn how to draw a carrot and then hook a rabbit onto it

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You are quite, quite wrong if you think that ... I find your happiness painful. What matters is that happiness - the golden day…

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