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The art of pleasing is more based on the art of seeming pleased than people think of, and she disarmed the prejudices of her enemies by the unaffected delight she appeared to take in themselves.

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There is nothing that you may not get people to believe in if you will only tell it them loud enough and often enough, till the welkin rings with it.

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Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

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It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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