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To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement...
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O what fine thought we had because we thought that the worst rogues and...
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The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
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Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems...
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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters,...
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Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it...
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The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one.
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Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why...
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I gave ‘em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it...
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Don’t knock the weather nine-tenths of the people couldn’t start a conversation if it...