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Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the...
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O for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
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Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat...
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Courage is a special kind of knowledge the knowledge of how to fear what...
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… everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate,...
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There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and...
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There is always someone worse off than yourself.
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Summer afternoon – Summer afternoon… the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.
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American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralise every intellectual element, however...