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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself...
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The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
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The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.
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It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought. Each subsiding century...
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The harder you work, the luckier you get.
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Three things it is best to avoid a strange dog, a flood, and a...
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We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting...
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One of the great attractions of patriotism — it fulfills our worst wishes. In...
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has...
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But then peace, peace I am so mistrustful of it so much afraid that...