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A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy. ↗

— Carlo Collodi

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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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No man ever listened himself out of a job. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

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Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

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I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet. ↗

— Bob Dylan

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No one will ever accuse James Carville of taking himself seriously. ↗

— James Carville

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God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

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