“The stronger your self-understanding is, the greater your probability of adapting to the people around you.” Surrounded by Idiots
I quote others only in order the better to express myself. Essays
The first forty years of life furnish the text, while the remaining thirty supply the commentary. Counsels and Maxims
The gentleman lolling back in the chaise was neither dashingly handsome nor yet unbearably ugly, neither too stout nor yet too thin; it could not be claimed he was old but he was no stripling, either. His arrival in the town created no stir and was not marked by anything out of the ordinary. Dead Souls
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