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What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders...
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He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the...
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The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.
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The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one...
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Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow...
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I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I...
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The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.
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The most decisive actions of our life — I mean those that are most...
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You just don’t luck into things as much as you’d like to think you...
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It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked,...