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The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more...
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Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble...
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Our lives improve only when we take chances – and the first and most...
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When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk...
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Of children as of procreation – the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense...
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so...
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In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who...
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The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in...
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Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist...
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To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past Therefore it...