Vulgar words in The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims (Page 1)
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In the same way, if you can imagine--_per impossible_--a large company of very intelligent and clever people, amongst whom there are only two blockheads, these two will be sure to be drawn together by a feeling of sympathy, and each of them will very soon secretly rejoice at having found at least one intelligent person in the whole company.
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So you will see that, in dealing with fools and blockheads, there is only one way of showing your intelligence--by having nothing to do with them.
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It is just the same in other things; in learning to write and speak Latin, a man will forget the grammatical rules; it is only by long practice that a blockhead turns into a courtier, that a passionate man becomes shrewd and worldly-wise, or a frank person reserved, or a noble person ironical.
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It is the dread of this calamity that makes love of possession increase with age.