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“The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy, is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities.”
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“We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.”
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“... fashion is a capricious deity ...”
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“Being nuts is its own reward.”
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“Many Americans think of the rest of the world as a kind of Disneyland, a showplace for quaint fauna, flora and artifacts. They dress for travel in cheap, comfortable, childish clothes, as if they were going to the zoo and would not be seen by anyone except the animals.”
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“When we can begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.”
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“I love humility in a woman. It's so rare. With man, of course, it is practically extinct.”
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“You need only claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.”