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" We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best. "

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" In art as in love, instinct is enough. "

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" An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. "

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" War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war. "

" You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving. "

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" What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation. "

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