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Half the failures of this world arise from pulling in one’s horse as he...
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a...
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We don’t receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that...
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A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality...
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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes one’s own.
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I believe in the possibility of miracles but more to the point, I believe...
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The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except...