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…people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something,...
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The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation...
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a...
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Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists...
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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.
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They’re only truly great who are truly good.
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Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand...
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One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.
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Speak of things public to the public, but of things lofty and secret only...
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There’s nothing in this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in...