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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and...
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Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a...
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Wise and prudent men — intelligent conservatives — have long known that in a...
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Everybody wants to be somebody nobody wants to grow.
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There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and...
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I don’t confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow isthe higher achievement.
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Where today are the Pequot Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and...
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A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years...
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The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter...
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We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too...