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Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and...
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The engineer is the key figure in the material progress of the world. It...
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Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot...
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The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
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Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
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A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.
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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in...
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The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those...
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Pour water on a sportswriter — instant horseshit.
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The Pythagorean … having been brought up in the study of mathematics, thought that...