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Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it. Common parlance alludes to this weakness in the frequently heard phrase: PEOPLE DO NOT THINK.

— Ernest Dimnet The Art of Thinking (1928)

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Personality is the knowledge that we are apart from the rest of the universe.

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The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

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Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

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You are not to disbelieve human science or think human reason invalid except when they venture outside their province.

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Very busy people always find time for everything.
Conversely, people with immense leisure find time for nothing.

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