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We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.
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May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
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I don’t believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is...
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Experience is the worst teacher it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
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Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where...
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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether...
Quote #18946
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
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Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon...
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Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed...
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I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he...