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With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

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Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.

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Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriati...more

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It is in trifles and when he is off his guard that a man best shows his character.

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Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see.

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Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

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Time is that by which at every moment all things become as nothing in our hands, and thereby lose all their true value.

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It is for this reason that we find that co-existence, which could neither be intime alone, for time has no contiguity, nor in space alone, forspace ha...more