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A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is...
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Ridicule is the best test of truth.
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Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
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Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort...
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Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.
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Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
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It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history.
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A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm...