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You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the...
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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing, as long as he...
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There comes a time when a man must spit on his hands, hoist the...
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If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As...
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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now...
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No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to...
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The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation...
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Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous,...
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years...