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• Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of ''artistic'' expression is something to which the merest five-eighth can climb.

  Patrick Kavanagh
  Irish poet and novelist (1904 - 1967)
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• Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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• There are not words enough in all Shakespeare to express the merest fraction of a man's experience in an hour.

  The Pocket R.L.S.

  Robert Louis Stevenson
  Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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• There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

  Friedrich von Schiller
  German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• five-eighth
• shakespeare
• expression
• experience
• loftiness
• braggarts

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