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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on...
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One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in...
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Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It...
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I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better...
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to...