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Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and...
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Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike...
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Nothing surely is so disgraceful to society and to individuals as unmeaning wastefulness.
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There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you’re busy...
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Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless one...
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To make a man happy, fill his hands with work.
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The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the...
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My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others,...
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If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four...
Quote #26537
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of...