Quote by Blaise Pascal
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. – Blaise Pascal

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Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom? – Blaise Pascal

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In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. – John Ruskin

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It is anothers fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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The greatest wealth is to live content with little. – Plato

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My books are like water those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water. – Mark Twain

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You will also allow me to thank the Academy for inviting me to lecture in Stockholm, for its hospitality, and for the opportunity afforded me for admiring the charm of your people and the beauty of your country. – Guglielmo Marconi

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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. – Virginia Woolf

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