To know how to turn unexpected events in life to one's advantage so that people suppose them to have been counted on beforehand and desired, shows the man of the world and often spells happiness as well. Indeed, merely to know this rule and constantly to bear it in mind is in itself an encouragement.
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Reading means borrowing; inventing out of what we read, appropriation.
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It is always a good sign when artists can often be hindered by trifles from the due performance of their art. F... used to dip his fingers into flour before playing the piano; and another great pianist could never be brought to perform if he had shortly before cut his nails. Such things do not disconcert the mediocre man, because his power of discrimination does not go so far; he has, as it were, a coarse sieve.
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To the intellectual not only do brainless, fashionable people become unbearable, but even the greatest amiability on the part of others loses its value should they have no mental talents.
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Even the sweetest, demurest and best of maidens are invariably sweeter, demurer and better, when they have found themselves prettier in the looking-glass.
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There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!
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What astonished him was that cats should have two holes cut in their coats exactly at the places where their eyes were.
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In my opinion the greater part of human misery has its source in indolence and effeminacy. The most vigorous nation is invariably the most inde- pendent and happy. Indolence avenges nothing, but seeks compensation for the greatest abuse and the greatest oppression.