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Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always...
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not...
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It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never...
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Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a...
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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
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Time extracts various values from a painter’s work. When these values are exhausted the...
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To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend...
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The sins of the fathers are often visited upon the sons-in-law.
Quote #30870
Eating while seated makes one of large size eating while standing makes one strong.