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Morals refine manners, as manners refine morals.
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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Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.
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Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop.
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The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time.
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Never strive, O artist, to create what you are not irresistibly impelled to create!
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Those whom we support hold us up in life.
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An opinion may be controverted a prejudice, never.
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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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To have and not to give is often worse than to steal.
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The poor never estimate as a virtue the generosity of the rich.
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Indifference of every kind is reprehensible, even indifference towards one's self.
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One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time.
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When the time comes in which one could, the time has passed in which one can.
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There are very few honest friends--the demand is not particularly great.
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Conquer, but don't triumph.
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Grace is the outcome of inward harmony.
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To accept reason is impossible if you don't already possess it.
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The believer who has never doubted will hardly convert a doubter.
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