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It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to...
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It is the action of an uninstructed person to reproach others for his own...
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To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it,...
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It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more...
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The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity;...
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Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot...
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If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery....
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If wisdom were on sale in the open market, the stupid would not even...
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I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that...