We would have been happy if we could have assigned just three categories, large, medium, and small; the point is, we wanted to avoid personal judgments. It actually turned out to be quite a finely tuned scale.


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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the fir...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beaut...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
Weaklings must lie.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
A timid person is frightened before danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afte...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise. [Ger., Es ist dem Menschen leichter un...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
Anger wishes that all mankind had only one neck; love, that it had only one heart; grief, two tear-...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afte...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
Our memories are the only paradise from which we can never be expelled.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
The gaurdian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always loo...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. [Ger., Die Menschen gehen wie Schiesskugel...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
A farewell is necessary before we can meet again, and meeting again, after moments or a lifetime is ...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
A sky full of silent suns.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
When one remains modest, not after praise but after blame, then is he really so. [Ger., Wenn jema...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
He who gives up the smallest part of a secret has the rest no longer in his power. [Ger., Wer den...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
For variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. [Ger., Weil Versch...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
Night was drawing and closing her curtain up above the world, and down beneath it.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. -Jean Pa...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
Cheerfulness is the atmosphere in which all things thrive
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
The greatest hatred, like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, is silent. [Ger., Der grosste H...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, ...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
Orthodox medicine has not found an answer to your complaint. However, luckily for you, I happen to b...
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