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Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments...
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Crude, immoral, vulgar and senseless.
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Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to...
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The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as...
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Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates...
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Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
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Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he...
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Talent does what it can, Genius does what it must.
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This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for...
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Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in...