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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part...
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When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the...
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We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise...
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Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise...
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Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
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‘A merry Christmas, uncle God save you’ cried a cheerful voice. ‘Bah’ said Scrooge....
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Till last by Philip’s farm I flowTo join the brimming river,For men may come...
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The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof,...
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The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.
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Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this...