Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.
There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.
This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!
Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious!
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It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.