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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The...
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Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.
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Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark and as that...
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The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the...
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Love is like war easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts...
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He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another. – Hercules Furens
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The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for...
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We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side one which we...
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Pointing out the comic elements of a situation can bring a sense of proportion...