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For our improvement we need a mirror.
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The truth can wait, for she lives a long life.
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Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.
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The word of man is the most durable of all material.
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To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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The presence of a thought is like the presence of a lover.
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I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people.
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A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.
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After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
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Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
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The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom. - Essays
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The progress of life shows a man the stuff of which he is made.
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Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour.
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That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject.
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Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.
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Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect.
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Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity.
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Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.
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The highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind.
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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Not to go to the theater is like making one's toilet without a mirror.
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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Treat a work of art like you would a prince: let it speak to you first.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child.
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Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
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Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to become
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Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
Wyndham Lewis
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Born:
February 22, 1788
Died:
September 21, 1860
(aged 72)
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