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Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend: such nails are then thrown into the dust or into the furnace.

— Walter Savage Landor Imaginary Conversations (1824)

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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

There is nothing so difficult to support imperturbably as the head of a lovely girl, except her grief.

Absence and death are the same—only that in death there is no suffering.

Him I would call the powerful one who controls the storms of his mind.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

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