Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
Charles de SecondatAbout author
- Author's profession: Philosopher
- Nationality: french
- Born: January 18, 1689
- Died: February 10, 1755
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mogus silpnas, todl visada bando nuo savs nuslpti didij Mirties ties. Jis nesuvokia, jog tiktai ji skatina gyvenime atlikti paius didiausius darbus. mogus bijo nuklysti tams, j siaubingai gsdina neinomyb, ir t baim manoma veikti tik nepamirtant, kad jo dienos suskaiiuotos. mogus nesupranta, jog, susitaiks su Mirtimi, sugebt rytis didesniems darbams, pasiekti nepalyginamai didesni pergali savo kasdienje kovoje, nes neturi ko prarasti - Mirtis neivengiama.
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Some six weeks ago
I was allowed by the doctor to have white bread to eat instead of the coarse
black or brown bread of ordinary prison fare. It is a great delicacy. It will
sound strange that dry bread could possibly be a delicacy to any one. To me
it is so much so that at the close of each meal I carefully eat whatever crumbs
may be left on my tin plate, or have fallen on the rough towel that one uses
as a cloth so as not to soil one’s table; and I do so not from hunger—I get
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