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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Victory is a political fiction.
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Now I understand why Henry VIII started his own church.
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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
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A friend is one to whom one can pour out all the contents of...
Quote #14073
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It...
Quote #21746
Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one’s...
Quote #34619
Discretion is not the better part of biography.
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I have been both rich and poor–while I have respect for both, I am...
Quote #31970
Rejoicing is clearly a spiritual command. To ignore it, I need to remind you,...