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A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible – indeed, inevitable – the...
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Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will...
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It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we admire...
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Coincidences are spiritual puns.
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Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
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The only success worth one’s powder was success in the line of one’s idiosyncrasy...
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It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
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In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not the...
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If you would be pungent, be brief for it is with words as with...