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Vigorous writing is concise.
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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
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Plato is boring.
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If you can’t do what you want, do what you can.
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Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.
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Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
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Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
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Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only...