"He thought as a sage, though he felt as a man."

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"This country will not always be an uncomfortable place for a country gentleman to live in, and it is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am afraid that Labou…"

— William Butler Yeats

Literature1806–1862

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"It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in the retrospect. We should have been cut-throats to do otherwise. And there's an end. We ought to know distinctly that we are damned for wh…"

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Literature1850–1894

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"When we are absorbed in other things, in the not-self, we forget the self. There is nothing unnatural about it. But, why forget the self through excess of attachment? Wisdom lies in never forgetting t…"

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

Education1897–1981

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"Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one."

— Philip Stanhope

Politics1584–1656

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