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Man lives for science as well as bread.Showing Quotes on interest
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.Showing Quotes on interest
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its processShowing Quotes on interest
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I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.Showing Quotes on interest
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The world loves a spice of wickednessShowing Quotes on interest
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All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to itShowing Quotes on interest
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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.Showing Quotes on interest
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To read means to borrow; to create out of one's readings is paying off one's debtsShowing Quotes on interest
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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everythingShowing Quotes on interest
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The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great thingsShowing Quotes on interest
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Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.Showing Quotes on interest
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The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truthShowing Quotes on interest
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Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the doorShowing Quotes on interest
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The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move themShowing Quotes on interest
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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones neverShowing Quotes on interest
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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks backShowing Quotes on interest
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Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public goodShowing Quotes on interest
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And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.Showing Quotes on interest
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The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing , to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts, not a select partyShowing Quotes on interest
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Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subjectShowing Quotes on interest
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I am fit for nothing but literatureShowing Quotes on interest
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People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen somethingShowing Quotes on interest
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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.Showing Quotes on interest
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stoneShowing Quotes on interest
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Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit.Showing Quotes on interest
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In science, we must be interested in things, not in personsShowing Quotes on interest
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The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign landShowing Quotes on interest
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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its authorShowing Quotes on interest
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to knowShowing Quotes on interest
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People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk aboutShowing Quotes on interest
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No calculations of interest, no schemes of policy can do the work of love, of the spirit of human brotherhood. There can be no peace without but through peace within.Showing Quotes on interest
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A single hour a day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledgeShowing Quotes on interest
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When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and courageous feelings, seek for no other rule to judge the event by; it is good and made by a good workmanShowing Quotes on interest
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Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about itShowing Quotes on interest
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Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheistShowing Quotes on interest
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Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sightedShowing Quotes on interest
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Less than fifteen percent of the people do any original thinking on any subject . . . The greatest torture in the world for most people is to thinkShowing Quotes on interest
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The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mindShowing Quotes on interest
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Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himselfShowing Quotes on interest
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He listens well who takes notes.Showing Quotes on interest
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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may beShowing Quotes on interest
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profitShowing Quotes on interest
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The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain forShowing Quotes on interest
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To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in loveShowing Quotes on interest
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Talk six times with the same single lady and you may get the wedding dress readyShowing Quotes on interest
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To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusementShowing Quotes on interest
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A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelorShowing Quotes on interest
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The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.Showing Quotes on interest
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There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interestShowing Quotes on interest
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Men often act knowingly against their interestShowing Quotes on interest
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Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.Showing Quotes on interest
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Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.Showing Quotes on interest
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The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.Showing Quotes on interest
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to moveShowing Quotes on interest
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Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the childrenShowing Quotes on interest
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If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eatingShowing Quotes on interest
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He was a bold man that first eat an oysterShowing Quotes on interest
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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.Showing Quotes on interest
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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasmShowing Quotes on interest
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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feelShowing Quotes on interest
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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may beShowing Quotes on interest
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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind youngShowing Quotes on interest
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Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enoughShowing Quotes on interest
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindledShowing Quotes on interest
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answersShowing Quotes on interest
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We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.Showing Quotes on interest
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I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplishShowing Quotes on interest
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Fire burns only when we are near it, but a beautiful face burns and inflames, though at a distanceShowing Quotes on interest
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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.Showing Quotes on interest
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I drink to make other people more interestingShowing Quotes on interest
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Either write something worth reading or do something worth writingShowing Quotes on interest
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.Showing Quotes on interest
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I often quote myself. I find it adds spice to the conversationShowing Quotes on interest
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Words are only painted fire; a book is the fire itself.Showing Quotes on interest
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So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of dateShowing Quotes on interest
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I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervalsShowing Quotes on interest
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An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sexShowing Quotes on interest
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestorsShowing Quotes on interest
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In heaven all the interesting people are missingShowing Quotes on interest
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Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain muchShowing Quotes on interest
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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listenShowing Quotes on interest
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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants onShowing Quotes on interest
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Egoist: A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in meShowing Quotes on interest
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Capital must be propelled by self-interest; it cannot be enticed by benevolenceShowing Quotes on interest
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The most successful person is usually the one with the best informationShowing Quotes on interest
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