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We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of...
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American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralise every intellectual element, however...
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It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left...
Quote #17939
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Quote #8601
Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced...
Quote #8805
But words are things; and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon...
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It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and...
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I call architecture frozen music.
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Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
Quote #29010
The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with...