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The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition. – Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues

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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle. РAndr̩ Gide, Journals, 26 October 1924

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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. – Oscar Wilde

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Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched. – Thomas Fuller

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