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Joseph Conrad
: It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow :
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He that respects himself is safe from others; He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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B C Forbes :
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Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.
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Mark Twain :
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It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.
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Charles Churchill :
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Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.
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Samuel Johnson :
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Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull everywhere. He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him great.
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Oscar Wilde :
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Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.
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Samuel Foote :
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What can he mean by coming among us? He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
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Sir Richard Steele :
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It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.
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Joseph Addison :
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Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes :
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What a comfort a dull but kindly person is, to be sure, at times! A ground-glass shade over a gas-lamp does not bring more solace to our dazzled eyes than such a one to our minds.
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Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love -- and to put its trust in life.
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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
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Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.
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Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
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The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.
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Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of illusions.
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The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds.
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