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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent...
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry,...
Quote #4481
Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.
Quote #17082
If you don’t risk anything you risk even more.
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For those who love it, cooking is at once child’s play and adult joy....
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From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the...
Quote #28823
There is something about poverty that smells like death.
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Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat...
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Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions but those who...
Quote #7770
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.