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Don’t talk to me about naval tradition. It’s nothing but rum, sodomy and the...
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The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which...
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If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for...
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The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact...
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Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us...
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From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.
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The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world’s dreadful injustice.
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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty...
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One sometimes feels a guest of one’s time and not a member of its...
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Heroes are often the most ordinary of men.