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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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Henri Frederic Amiel
Age: 59 †
Born: 1821
Born: September 27
Died: 1881
Died: May 11
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Do not despise your situation in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and to the infinite.
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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
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It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
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Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.
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Common sense is the measure of the possible it is composed of experience and prevision it is calculation applied to life.
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Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
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