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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing....
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No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny the officious demands of policemen, government...
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It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for...
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He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all contingencies of life; but...
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where...
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Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which...
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Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and...
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An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private...
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Those who do not complain are never pitied.