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Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.

— Heinrich Heine The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations (1987)

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Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction.

Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources (1899)

Mark this well, you proud men of action: You are nothing but the unwitting agents of the men of thought who often, in quiet self-effacement, mark out most exactly all your doings in advance.

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

The Modern Handbook of Humor (1967)

Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.

The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love.

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