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Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire or, out of God’s...
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Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in...
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Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather...
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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before...
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage...
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We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do it enough to impress themselves,...
Quote #2732
As if there were safety in stupidity alone.