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— Ralph Waldo Emerson"It is bad enough that our geniuses cannot do anything useful, but it is worse that no man is fit for society who has fine traits.He is admired at a distance, but he cannot come near without appearing a cripple."
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Those who are overreached by our cunning are far from appearing to us as ridiculous as we appear to ourselves when the cunning of others has overreached us.
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Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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