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We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but...
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The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest...
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A candour affected is a dagger concealed.
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Much that passes for education … is not education at all but ritual. The...
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With affection beaming out of one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind-...
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Do not trust the horse, Trojans Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even...
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In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and...
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Courage is a special kind of knowledge the knowledge of how to fear what...
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Carlyle said, “A lie cannot live”; it shows he did not know how to...