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Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the...
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The whole world is a man’s birthplace.
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Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
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The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you...
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science...
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One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely...
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Motherhood is a wonderful thing – what a pity to waste it on children.
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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one...
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
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A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.