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It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This...
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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward...
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The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock,...
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Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be...
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Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
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Whatever is to make us better and happy, God has placed either openly before...
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A critic is a bunch of biases held loosely together by a sense of...
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Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a...
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There’s always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little – and...
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away. – Hercules Furens