Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.

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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all

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Keep not money, but keep good people's company.

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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.

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Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty

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I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.

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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.

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I am who I am and that's who I am

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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.

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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

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