Many of the finest and most interesting emotions perish forever, because too complex and fugitive for expression. Of … - William Benton Clulow

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Breezy, sophisticated, hilarious, rude and aching with sweetness: LOVE, NINA might be the most charming book I've ever read.

William Benton Clulow

Many of the finest and most interesting emotions perish forever, because too complex and fugitive for expression. Of all things relating to man, his feelings are perhaps the most evanescent, the greater part dying in the moment of their birth. But while emotions perish, thought blended in diction is immortal.

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Man often acquires just so much knowledge as to discover his ignorance, and attains so much experience as to regret his follies, and then dies.

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Philosophy abounds more than philosophers, and learning more than learned men.

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Great books, like large skulls, have often the least brains.

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After upwards of two thousand years Epicurus has been exonerated from the reproach that the doctrines of his philosophy recommended the pleasures of sensuality and voluptuousness as the chief good. Calumny may rest on genius a considerable part of a world's duration; what then is the value of fame?

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The fame which bids fair to live the longest resembles that which Horace attributes to Marcellus, whose progress he compares to the silent, imperceptible growth of a tree.

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