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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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The believer who has never doubted will hardly convert a doubter.
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He who says patience, says courage, endurance, strength.
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There are very few honest friends--the demand is not particularly great.
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Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.
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If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.
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Imaginary evils are incurable.
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You can sink so fast that you think you are flying.
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Even virtue is an art and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs.
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Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone.
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One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time.
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When two good men contend about principles, both are always right.
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To accept reason is impossible if you don't already possess it.
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Nothing is so irretrievably missed as an opportunity we encounter every day.
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The sympathy of most people consists of a mixture of good-humour, curiosity, and self-importance.
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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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Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule they can also be the harbinger of a new one.
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To be young is delightful to be old is comfortable.
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Enthusiasm does not always speak for those who arouse it, but always for those who experience it.
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Conquer but never triumph.
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In youth we learn in age we understand.
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