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Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach...
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She had wit, she had grace, she had beauty; But above all, she had...
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Being on the tightrope is living everything else is waiting.
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Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always...
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There are many in the world dying for a piece of bread, but there...
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Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend’s success without envy.
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The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have...
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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.
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Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the...
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.