I distrust all systematisers, and avoid them. The will to a system, shows a lack of honesty.
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Man thinks woman profound—why? Because he can never fathom her depths. Woman is not even shallow.
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When woman possesses masculine virtues, she is enough to make you run away. When she possesses no masculine virtues, she herself runs away.
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“How often conscience had to bite in times gone by! What good teeth it must have had! And to-day, what is amiss?”—A dentist’s question.
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Errors of haste are seldom committed singly. The first time a man always docs too much. And precisely on that account he commits a second error, and then he does too little.
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