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Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but...
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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
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Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
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A good home must be made, not bought.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only...
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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds,...
Quote #17799
A man with a new idea is a crank — until the idea succeeds.
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My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others,...
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I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious idea of heaven...
Quote #5030
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex … it takes a...