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He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
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What is a country without rabbits and partridges They are among the most simple...
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I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it...
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One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay...
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A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has...
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the...
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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.