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What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness...
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
Quote #7759
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a...
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The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the...
Quote #33974
So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place...
Quote #6533
Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it.
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Don’t wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good...
Quote #1848
A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as...
Quote #13371
From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.