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The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.
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A man’s feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey...
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Nobody has ever measured even poets, how much a heart can hold.
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I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has...
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As flies to wanton boys, are we to the godsThey kill us for their...
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and...
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A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
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Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
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Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words
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To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.