The eye knew much more about architecture than did the books.

Axel Munthe in The Story of San Michele (1929)
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The devil himself can do nothing to a man as long as he can laugh.

Axel Munthe in The Story of San Michele (1929)
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You give nothing to the people unless you give yourself up to them.

Axel Munthe in The Story of San Michele (1929)
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All you give away on earth is saved for you in Heaven, all you keep is lost.

Axel Munthe in The Story of San Michele (1929)
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The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.

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The cruel wild beast is not behind the bars of the cage, he stands in front of it.

Axel Munthe in The Story of San Michele (1929)
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Happiness we can only find in ourselves, it is a waste of time to seek for it from others, few have any to spare.

Axel Munthe in The Story of San Michele (1929)
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When children learn to understand the money value of their toys they are driven out of their paradise, they cease to be children.

Axel Munthe in The Story of San Michele (1929)
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All that is really useful to us can be bought for little money, it is only the superfluous that is put up for sale at a high price.

Axel Munthe in The Story of San Michele (1929)
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His one superiority over me is that he can drop a swallow or a skylark with his revolver at fifty yards while I should probably miss an elephant at the same distance.

Axel Munthe in The Story of San Michele (1929)
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