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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the...
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Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of...
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Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this...
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Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of mystery.
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If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy...
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Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don’t necessarily understand, just decides to go to...
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The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down...
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Henry James created more convincing women than Iris Murdoch put together.