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Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time...
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I mean your borrowers of books – those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the...
Quote #29456
Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day...
Quote #18509
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
Quote #17728
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
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The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded...
Quote #31003
Truth is beautiful and divine no matter how humble its origin.
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What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst...
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There’s many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
Quote #9182
Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed:...