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The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism. ↗

— Alma Gluck

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The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself. ↗

— William Godwin

#error #every #every man #hastening #himself

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#deceive #grown #grown ups #little #need

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#deceived #never #ourselves

But if the choice is a cool president and 8 or 10 percent unemployment in a declining economy and a country that seems to be going in the wrong direction and structural unemployment for young people at 50 percent, I'd rather have a dorky president who fixed those problems. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#cool #country #declining #direction #dorky

The great thing about cake is it doesn't feel like work. You forget about work. Kids, adults, they all get the same look in their eye when they're decorating cakes... That's the magic right there. ↗

— Duff Goldman

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Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss! ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

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Where wealth accumulates, men decay. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

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