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Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
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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 highest happiness of man … is to have probed what is knowable and...
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You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire,...
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Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree –...
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Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like...
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The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
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I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father’s religion,...
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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but...
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The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase...