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It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is...
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The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
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Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in...
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All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions...
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O Winter ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king...
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No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling...
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What a man thinks of himself that is what determines, or rather indicates his...
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was...
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He that is robb’d, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know ‘t,...