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The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself. ↗

— William Godwin

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The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years. ↗

— William Godwin

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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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