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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood...
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Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly nothing in...
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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him...
Quote #17549
We don’t understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know...
Quote #26473
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there...
Quote #10702
There is no eraser on the end of a scalpel.
Quote #5432
Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.
Quote #5512
War is a continuation of politics by other means.
Quote #2570
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.