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A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages;...
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Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to...
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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Ask, and it shall be given you; Seek, and ye shall find; Knock, and...
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard...
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She had fortunately always her appetite for news. The pure flame of the disinterested...
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Ginger Rodgers did everything Fred Astair did, but she did it backwards and in...
Quote #22069
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew...