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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
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All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health,...
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
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It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy...
Quote #16948
Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.
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Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of...
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Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed...
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There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn’t be. He...
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This life’s dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole...
Quote #1204
“If the victor had the gods on his side, the vanquished had Cato.”