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The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a f

The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it. – Goethe

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Some defeats [are] more triumphant than victories. – Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1588

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A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole books, or ideas for learned discussions, in some corner of a chapter so that one should think he can afford to throw them away by the thousand. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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A man who finds no satisfaction in himself, seeks for it in vain elsewhere. РFran̤ois VI de la Rochefoucault

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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor. – Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus puerisque, 1881

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