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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part...
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Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don’t bite everybody.
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Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which...
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Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to...
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To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, not even to...
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The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love...
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How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire
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The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest...
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Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.
Quote #7205
Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.