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One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

Miguel de Cervantes

You [an aspiring writer] can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.

Theodor W. Adorno

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

A man is bound to make for himself in this world, that fortune which heaven had refused him at his birth.

Alexandre Dumas

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If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.

I have a heart with room for every joy.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.

A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter — we all hesitate at the first plunge.

If you want work well done, select a busy man‚ the other kind has no time.

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.