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Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
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Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing...
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control...
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Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b)...
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The highest happiness of man … is to have probed what is knowable and...
Quote #23904
For Africa to me is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical...
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A country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of...
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To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it,...
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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it...
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Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a...