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Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.

Berthold Auerbach

We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.
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Men Selfish Vanity
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
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Fear Justice Strive
Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
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Men Modern Window
If you sound great in the practice room, you’re practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
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Dust Practice Soul
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
When the foot of the’ mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.
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Disaster Feet Mountain
We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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Fall Grief Rain Silent
In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.
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Bird Nature Swamp
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Art Money Valor
The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
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Age Men Retains Silver
People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening into the other.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Eye Long Maturity

Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.

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