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When I heard that trees grow a new ‘ring’ for each year they live,...
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It should be our care not so much to live a long life as...
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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
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Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
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Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed men, and such as...
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A candour affected is a dagger concealed.
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One of the most effectual ways of pleasing and of making one’s self loved...
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I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning,...
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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man...
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I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is...