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The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely...
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Histories make men wise poets, witty the mathematics, subtle natural philosophy, deep moral, grave...
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Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something.
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There is divine beauty in learning, just as there is human beauty in tolerance....
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Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be...
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How exquisite that gaze of yours would be if you were being whipped to...
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Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself,...
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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Custom is the great guide of human life.
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It was from an old friend who thought he was dying. Anyway, he said,...