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“A perfect judge will read each work of wit
With the same spirit that its author writ”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

“He knew himself a villain—but he deem'd
The rest no better than the thing he seem'd;
And scorn'd the best as hypocrites who hid
Those deeds the bolder spirit plainly did.
He knew himself detested, but he knew
The hearts that loath'd him, crouch'd and dreaded too.
Lone, wild, and strange, he stood alike exempt
From all affection and from all contempt”
― George Gordon Byron, The Corsair

“Hesitating, at the threshold of various illusory paths of life, I considered them one by one, without daring to pursue any one of them.”
― Chateaubriand, Rene

“The misfortune of solitary and timid people - who are timid from self-consciousness - is just that, though they have eyes and indeed open them wide, they see nothing, or see everything in a false light, as though through coloured spectacles.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Diary of a Superfluous Man