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" A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion. "
Food
More
Love
" A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man. "
Dead
Without
Man
" Contentment is the only real wealth. "
Real
Only
Contentment
" For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent. "
Most
Impossible
Feel
" Good wishes alone will not ensure peace. "
Good
Will
Wishes
" Home is where I work, and I work everywhere. "
Where
Everywhere
Home
" Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness. "
Hope
Hiding
Nature
" I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealist who digests philosophy more efficiently than food. "
Who
Philosophy
More
" If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied. "
Ideas
Out
Satisfied
" I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English. "
Now
Poetry
Purpose
" I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results. "
Promotion
Peace
I Am
" It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not. "
Wish
Worthy
Prize
" Justice is to be found only in imagination. "
Justice
Found
Only
" Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness. "
Pure
His
Reason
" Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked. "
Living
People
Line
" Lying is the greatest of all sins. "
Lying
Greatest
Sins
" One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge. "
Search
Human
Differences
" On the day when two army corps may mutually annihilate each other in a second, probably all civilized nations will recoil with horror and disband their troops. "
Will
Army
Day
" Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age. "
Agriculture
Second
Our
" The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father and me, and struck some on an anvil to show that only the part touched by the hammer exploded without spreading. "
Me
Beginning
Time
" The truthful man is usually a liar. "
Liar
Man
Truthful
" Worry is the stomach's worst poison. "
Worst
Worry
Stomach
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