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So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that...
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The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our...
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Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.
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Always accept good fortune with grace and humility.
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In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
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Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my...
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As the poet said, ‘Only God can make a tree’ — probably because it’s...
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The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
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Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him...
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Bed is the poor man’s opera.