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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown...
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Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And...
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There is so much good in the worst of us, an so much bad...
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If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that...
Quote #15906
To be deceived by our enemies or betrayed by our friends in insupportable; yet...
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Nobel prize money is a lifebelt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached...
Quote #24923
This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a...
Quote #867
But the only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture...
Quote #30598
Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men...
Quote #20481
How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we...