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I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions,...
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What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: “Why...
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I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.
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At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk...
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready...
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of...
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When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and...
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Courtly love-poetry may first have been written during long periods of abstinence on the...