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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

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For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one's destruction or their use. A standard both to buy and sell, all things from heaven down to hell.

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Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

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A fool must now and then be right, by chance.

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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.

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Once more I would adopt the graver style - a teacher should be sparing of his smile.

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How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.

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Fanaticism soberly defined, is the false fire of an over heated mind.

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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

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A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide.

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Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.

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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.

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No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.

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30 November 2025

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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