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Talent does what it can genius does what it must.
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Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I...
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The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement...
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Martyrdom… is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs —...
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
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The man who follows the crowd will get no farther than the crowd. A...
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There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.
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I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men...
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There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One...