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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and...
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He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
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If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with...
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The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will...
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An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting...
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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where...
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You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but...
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Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.
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Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep...
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Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.