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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of...
Quote #25872
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.
Quote #24667
A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops.
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Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will...
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Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our...
Quote #4787
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what...
Quote #30350
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in...
Quote #2008
France was a long despotism tempered by epigrams.
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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a...
Quote #30860
Where there is a sea there are pirates.