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If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS...
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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
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True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table...
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The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward. –...
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What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness...
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To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer...
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Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must...
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Suffering . We owe to it all that is good in us, all that...
Quote #18410
Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.