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We like to praise birds for flying. But how much of it is actually...
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Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never...
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock,...
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Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the...
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Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a...
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The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
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Somehow he Tim gets thoughtful sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest...
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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Quote #23513
Who has not hopedTo outrage an enemy’s dignityWho has not been sweptBy the wish...