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A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly,...
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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain...
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, — a mere heart...
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During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But...
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I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require...
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acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.
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A person who doesn’t lose his wits over certain things has no wits to...
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The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.
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What I like in a good author is not what he says but what...
Quote #20032
Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.