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“Not everyone is worth listening to.”

Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter I, Consolations For Unpopularity, p. 33.

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“A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.”

Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter IV, Consolation For Inadequacy, p. 168.

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“There may be no good reason for things to be the way they are.”

Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter I, Consolations For Unpopularity, p. 23.

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“Must being in love always mean being in pain?”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

Source: On Love

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“Too nicely Jonson knew the critic's part;
Nature in him was almost lost in Art.”

William Collins (1721–1759) English poet, born 1721

To Sir Thomas Hammer on his Edition of Shakespeare.

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“The time shall come
When man to man shall be a friend and brother.”

Gerald Massey (1828–1907) British poet

Hope on, hope ever, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).