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The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the circumstances render them impossible.
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Excellence Force Impossible Volume War Writing
One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.
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Difference Human Knowledge Observation Search State
Worry is the stomach’s worst poison.
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One Liner Poison Stomach Worry Worst
Lying is the greatest of all sins.
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Greatness Lying One Liner Sin
Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.
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Believe Law Live People
A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
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Force Heart Love Stomach
My home is where I work, and I work everywhere.
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Home Myself Work
If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
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Goodness Ideas Myself Satisfaction
The truthful man is usually a liar.
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Lying Man One Liner Truth
Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army corps can annihilate each other in one second all civilized nations will recoil from war in horror.
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Army Civilization Dynamite End Horror Nation Plant War
I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.
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Call Depression Improvement Myself Poetry Purpose Writing
Justice is to be found only in the imagination.
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Imagination Justice
I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.
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Ideas Leaving Myself Peace Result
I would not leave anything to a man of action as he would be tempted to give up work; on the other hand, I would like to help dreamers as they find it difficult to get on in life.
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Action Difficult Dreams Leaving Life Man Work
A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
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Book Death Ink Life Man
For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
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Brief Feeling Myself Writing

Contentment is the only real wealth.

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