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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors,...
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however...
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For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be...
Quote #3067
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
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Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of...
Quote #12613
I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death...
Quote #2521
I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise.
Quote #34065
Who made the world I cannot tell ‘Tis made, and here am I in...