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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.


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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.

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I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.



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The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.



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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.



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I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.



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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.



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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.





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