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Poets generally love cats — because poets have no delusions about their own superiority.
Quote #7902
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
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Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts–the book of their deeds, the book...
Quote #7668
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always...
Quote #33526
Patterning your life around other’s opinions is nothing more than slavery.
Quote #6965
Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.
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Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age,...
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One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for...
Quote #3011
It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.
Quote #17134
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love...