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The next best thing to winning is losing At least you’ve been in the...
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The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to...
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“Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation” yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.
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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices...
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Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent...
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Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.
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I don’t mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it...