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Use your intellect to guide you, and you will end up putting peopleoff. Rely on your emotions, and you will forever be pushed around.Force your will on others, and you will live in constant tension. Thereis no getting around it—people are hard to live with.
Use your intellect to guide you, and you will end up putting peopleoff. Rely on your emotions, and you will forever be pushed around.Force your will on others, and you will live in constant tension. Thereis no getting around it—people are hard to live with.
Approximate author period: c. 1891 AD · industrial
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- Sōseki Natsume
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- Approximate author period: c. 1891 AD · industrial
Approximate author-period evidence for Natsume Sōseki: life dates 1867 to 1916. Wikidata Q180903, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q180903 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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