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The oldest, shortest words— "yes" and "no"— are those which require the most thought.

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.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Abraham Lincoln

Either you think - or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Niccolò Machiavelli

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

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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.