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Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no...
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We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don’t, it is easier...
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Perhaps of all the creations of man, language is the most astonishing.
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Man’s chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.
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The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
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Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow...
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Watching football is like watching pornography. There’s plenty of action, and I can’t take...
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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If male homosexuals are called “gay,” then female homosexuals should be called “ecstatic.”
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Beaurocracy destroys initiative.