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All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and...
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History is the present. That’s why every generation writes it anew. But what most...
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The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring...
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If there is any one proof of a man’s incompetence, it is the stagnant...
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Every man’s life, liberty, and property are in danger when the Legislature is in...
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Of all the unbearable nuisances, the ignoramus that has travelled is the worst.
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The argument of the broken pane of glass is the most valuable argument in...
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The problem with any unwritten law is that you don’t know where to go...
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Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in...
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Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.