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People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who...
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession,...
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I was no petty thief, I wanted the world or nothing.
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Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars,...
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We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.
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A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of...
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Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are...
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We often choose a friend as we do a mistress — for no particular...
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I thought they’d get one of us, but Jack, after all he’s been through,...