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If work were good for you, the rich would leave none for the poor.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Part of the power of Emerson’s individualism is his insistence, at crucial moments, that...
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I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes...
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a...
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In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite...
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How strange is the lot of us mortals Each of us is here for...
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The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl...
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I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my...