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Books are the way the dead talk to the living.
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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now...
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My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of...
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my...
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What am I afraid of I’ll tell you a feather. that’s right, a feather....
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To err is human to refrain from laughing, humane.
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Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it...
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But who is to guard the guards themselves
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One should never know too precisely whom one has married.