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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.

Simone de Beauvoir

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

G. K. Chesterton

Perhaps a man's character is like a tree and his reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

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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.