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The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about...
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For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries...
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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having...
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There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for...
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There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the...
Quote #16911
Every burned book or house enlightens the world every suppressed or expunged word reverberates...
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No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still...
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The world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never...
Quote #18824
Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.