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A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common...
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In real love you want the other person’s good. In romantic love you want...
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Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the...
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The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring...
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments...
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Deus ex machina
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One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the...
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There are two million interesting people in New York and only seventy-eight in Los...