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The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having...
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Recently, someone asked me if I believed in astrology. He seemed somewhat puzzled when...
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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the...
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Good timber does not grow with ease the stronger the wind, the stronger the...
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The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again...
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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater...
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Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age,...
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A novel is a piece of prose of a certain length with something wrong...
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In a mad world, only the mad are sane.