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I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.
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Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast,...
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of...
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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten...
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Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions the surest poison is...
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If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of...
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Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. (Quoting...
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The experience to be gathered from books, Though often valuable, is but of the...
Quote #7983
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary.