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My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author...
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life the one preserves, the...
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It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
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We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence … too sacred to be touched....
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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing...
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Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to...
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Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased,...
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Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the...
Quote #22613
It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go,...