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Absence lessens the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind douses...
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I happen to feel that the degree of a person’s intelligence is directly reflected...
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in...
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My basic principle is that you don’t make decisions because they are easy you...
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in...
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a...
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Any man with a moderate income can afford to buy more books than he...
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The tendancy of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached...
Quote #15740
Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart.