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The world more often rewards the appearance of merit than merit itself. – La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665

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I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. – Isaac Newton (1642–1727), spoken the evening before his death

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The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition. – Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues

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I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others? – Maurice Maeterlinck

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