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“Even a stopped clock is right twice a day”
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“Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.”
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“In youth we learn; in age we understand.”
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“Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’ quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty.”
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“Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy.”
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“Who doesn't know anything, has to believe everything.”
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“Much less evil would be done on earth if evil could not be done in the name of good.
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“Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.”
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“So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.”
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“Happy slaves are the bitterest enemies of freedom.”
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“Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not comprehend.”
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“We don't believe in rheumatism and and true love untill the first ”
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“In youth we learn; in age we understand. – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach”
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“Do not consider yourself deprived because your dreams were not fulfilled; the truly deprived have never dreamed.”
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“There are more truths in a good book than its author meant to put in it.”
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“We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don’t care for.”
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“Onaj koga su odneli do cilja ne sme verovati da ga je dostigao”
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“To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible.”
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“One of the main goals of self-education is to eradicate that vanity in us without which we would never have been educated.”
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“Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone.”
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“It is difficult to see the person who admires us as stupid.”
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“So weit deine Selbstbeherrschung geht, so weit geht deine Freiheit.”
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“Der Gescheitere gibt nach! Eine traurige Wahrheit, sie begründet die Weltherrschaft der Dummheit.”
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“Lesen ist ein großes Wunder.”
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“Consider well before you immerse yourself in solitude whether your own company will be good for you.”
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“Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns.”
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“Скучната книга има хубава страна, че приспива и критиците.”
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“Many priceless things can be bought.”
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