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Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other,...
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Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he...
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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an...
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Natural abilities are like natural plants they need pruning by study.
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History makes us some amends for the shortness of life.
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It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the...
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in...
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Excellent wretch Perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee and when I...
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I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees...
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The object of the superior man is truth.