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God gives us our relatives- thank God we can choose our friends.
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Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own...
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Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
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Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of...
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As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child....
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The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he...
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Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are...
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History is the discovering of the constant and universal principles of human nature.
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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear...
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I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so...