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The society of women is the element of good manners.

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Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.

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Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

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Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.

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To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

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Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.

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The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

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Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity.

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In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous.

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Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everything which is beyond their range.

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