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A book is a companion that never flatters you, a friend that never turns from you, and a comrade that never tires of you.Al-Jahiz · Kitab al-Hayawan
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The best speech is that which is brief and hits the mark.Arabic proverb
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All art is but imitation of nature.Seneca · Letters to Lucilius, Letter 65
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The beginning is the most important part of any work.Plato · Republic, Book II (377a)
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The trap exists for the sake of the fish; once you have the fish, forget the trap. Words exist for the sake of meaning; once you grasp the meaning, forget the words.Zhuangzi · Zhuangzi, chapter 26 (External Things)
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If you shut your door to all errors, truth will be shut out.Rabindranath Tagore · Stray Birds, 130
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Beauty will save the world.Fyodor Dostoevsky · The Idiot
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance.Alexander Pope · An Essay on Criticism
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.Henry David Thoreau · Walden, "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For"
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As a day well spent brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings a happy death.Leonardo da Vinci · Notebooks (Codex Trivulzianus)
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