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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying...
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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and...
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it...
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The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the...
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Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never...
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Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual...
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History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography...
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He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount...
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A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than...
Quote #20669
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.