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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to...
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When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.
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Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits...
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My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author...
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Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
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I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do...
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In all our efforts to provide “advantages” we have actually produced the busiest, most...
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One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of attention, and...
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Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.
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The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government...