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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.

Alexander Pushkin

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Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.
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It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.
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