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How many merits one sees in those one likes! how many faults in th

How many merits one sees in those one likes! how many faults in those one dislikes! Yet people fancy they see with their eyes. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting. – Robert Benchley, Benchley — or Else!

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If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation will you prefer the grain to the vote? – Bertrand Russell

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