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History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to...
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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for...
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It’s funny that pirates were always going around searching for treasure, and they never...
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I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it...
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To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave...
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The priest persuades a humble people to endure their hard lot, a politician urges...
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He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.
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What’s right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we...
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The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else....