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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
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Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.
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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books...
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Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of...
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The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it...
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Comtemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen and then ask yourself, What should be...
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How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and...
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There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased...
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I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my...
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The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with...