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Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring,...
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Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
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Patriotism having become one of our topicks, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined...
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There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.
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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – gunpowder...
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Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in...
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Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary...
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no...
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The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to...
Quote #21773
Speak of the devil and he appears.