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Quote by Virginia Woolf
But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added

But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying. – Virginia Woolf

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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness. – Virginia Woolf

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Masterpieces are not single and solitary births they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice. – Virginia Woolf

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Of what use to get what you want if you must become someone else to get it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it — even if I have said it — unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. – Buddha

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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road. – Voltaire

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You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men. – Max Beerbohm

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The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity. РFran̤ois VI de la Rochefoucault, Maxims

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