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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel...
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Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
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Knowing is half the battle.
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Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but...
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The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if...
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Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our...
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Liberty without learning is always in peril learning without liberty is always in vain.
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A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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He who begins many things finishes but few.