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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is...
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Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes...
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At the beginning of a great national change, the patriot is a scarce man:...
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There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don’t know what it’s...
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To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.
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Many men die at twenty-five and aren’t buried until they are seventy-five.
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It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and...
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Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
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We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential....
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I looked with chameleon eyes upon the changing face of the world, looked with...