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“Conversation ... is like the table of contents of a dull book.... All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayed in it. Listen to it for three minutes, and you ask yourself which is more striking, the emphasis of the speaker or his shocking ignorance.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)

“What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.”
—R.G. (Robin George)