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History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time it illumines reality,...
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Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed:...
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Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to...
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Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure...
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So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that...
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We must dare to think about “unthinkable things” because when things become “unthinkable” thinking...
Quote #2371
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
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Calamities are of two kinds misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
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You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide....
Quote #8283
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.