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Be the first to say something obvious and achieve immortality.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Age: 86 †
Born: 1830
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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We should always forgive. We should forgive the repentant for their sake, the unrepentant for our sake.
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Fools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending.
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One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time.
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Who doesn't know anything, has to believe everything.
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Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone.
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He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.
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It's bad enough when married people bore one another, but it's much worse when only one of them bores the other.
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Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.
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If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.
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To accept reason is impossible if you don't already possess it.
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There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister.
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An intelligent woman has millions of born enemies... all the stupid men.
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The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.
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