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Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided...
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science...
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Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment...
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false,...
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Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.
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Absence lessens the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind douses...
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A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
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Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back....
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to...