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Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat...
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The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can’t help it.
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In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they...
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True genius is always inborn and never cultivated, let alone learned.
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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even...
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Advice is least heeded when most needed.
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A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.
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To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and...
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The life of the law has not been logic but experience.
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Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to...