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A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once...
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The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and...
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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In...
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Seeing a murder on television… can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you...
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Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk...
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Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
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Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of...
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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes one’s own.
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Van Gogh became a painter because he had no ear for music.