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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.

Voltaire

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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Broken Heart Deceive Hurt Love Lying Unhappy
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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Canvas Imagination Love Nature
I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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Kill Life Love Self Love Time Want
Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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Appreciation Excellence Gratitude Sympathy Wonderful
Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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Believe Fools Habit Myself Please Taste
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Dwell Harm Life Misfortune Power Thorn
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
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Acceptance Alone Decide Game Life Player
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Book Quantity Silence Writing
The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
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Believe Brain Confidence Human Man Power
Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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Cure Mad Madness Men Thinking
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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Human Ignorance Knowledge Spirit Virgin Virtue
If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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Change Finding Inspirational Life Pleasant
Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
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Body Disease Doctor Drug Humour
Men argue. Nature acts.
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Action Change Men Nature One Liner
I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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Book Bore Evil Reading Writing
I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Attitude Believe Confidence Inspirational Positive Way

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.

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