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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying...
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Contrary to popular belief, the most dangerous animal is not the lion or tiger...
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is the best sense I know of.
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It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of...
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When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our...
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science...
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My one aim was to do a thing well and to excel if possible.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others
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A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors...
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The more we give of anything, the more we shall get back.