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All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
[ Symbols ]
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Distance is a great promoter of admiration!
[ Admiration ]
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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
[ Happiness ]
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Good music is very close to primitive language.
[ Music ]
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His hands would plait the priests guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings.
[ Uncategorised ]
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I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
[ Acting and Actors ]
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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
[ Human Nature ]
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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
[ Leaders and Leadership ]
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Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
[ Passion ]
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Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
[ Maxim ]
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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
[ Poetry and Poets ]
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Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories.
[ Justice ]
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The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.
[ Doctors ]
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The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
[ Theater ]
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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
[ Passion ]
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