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Americans are overreachers overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.
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We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than...
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I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he...
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You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do...
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live...
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If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely...
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Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment....
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One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to...
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only...
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All that is gold does not glitter not all those that wander are lost.