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Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits,...
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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned...
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The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life...
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Vulnerant omnia, ultima necat. (All the hours wound you, the last one kills)
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The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They...
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If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the...
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He who will not economize will have to agonize.
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It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they much oftener...
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I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making him carry me, and...
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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what...