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  • Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.

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  • Edward Hoagland Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Lord Arthur Balfour Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
    Lord Arthur Balfour
    British statesman (1848 - 1930)
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  • Baruch Spinoza He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Thomas Jefferson I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Wallace Stevens If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Alexander Smith If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Leonard Cohen Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Lydia M. Child None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • William Lyon Phelps One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
    William Lyon Phelps
    American author, critic and scholar (1865 - 1943)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz What we should admire is the acute fulfillment of the unspoken assumptions, the smooth harmony of the whole activity, which only become evident in the final success.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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