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In light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of course,...
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Emile Zola was a poor student at his school at Aix. We are all...
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Words are a heavy thing…they weigh you down. If birds talked, they couldn’t fly.
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Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to...
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Etymology, n.: Some early etymological scholars come up with derivations that were hard for...
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There’s a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of...
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It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of...
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The tongue weighs practically nothing, But so few people can hold it.
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Beware the flatterer: he feeds you with an empty spoon.
Quote #16189
If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures.