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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most...
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When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be...
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There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men...
Quote #930
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
Quote #18609
People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and...
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No men can be lords of our faith, though they may be helpers of...
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…solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear...
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It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
Quote #7978
Patriotism having become one of our topicks, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined...
Quote #13020
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.