"The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell" — Confucius

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed

Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793)

The language of friendship is not words but meanings

Source: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other

Source: Emma (1815)

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should refuse an offer of marriage

Source: Emma (1815)

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud

Source: The Spectator, no. 225 (1711)

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things

Source: Walden (1854)

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