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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity...
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One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of attention, and...
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All schools, all colleges have two great functions to confer, and to conceal valuable...
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The world’s as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful
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The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to...
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The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.
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What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me...
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All writers-all people-have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a...
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It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck...
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When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.