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He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, a

He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enough of the world to feel that all people are in some sense his own kind. – Willa Cather

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It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of. – Willa Cather

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The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always. – Willa Cather

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A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people. – Peter McArthur

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Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows. – David T. Wolf

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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. – George Bernard Shaw

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It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyze before we can live happily in this world. – Nicolas Chamfort

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