Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. Studies in Pessimism
Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read-ultimately you will read everything out of it, that is, as much as there was in yourself, and you could never get more out of reading, even if you read the best of books. Stages on Life's Way
It is no small thing, when they, who are so fresh from God, love us. Master Humphrey's Clock
There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it. Mark Twain's Notebook
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