#lit

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men. ↗

— Confucius

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I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability. ↗

— Confucius

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Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods. ↗

— Confucius

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God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. ↗

— Paul Valery

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A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring. ↗

— William Congreve

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Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. ↗

— Paul Valery

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No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

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As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

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Nothing endures but personal qualities. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off was my wife's money and little bits I was picking up for journalism. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

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