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To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of...
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The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is ‘look under foot.’ You are...
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It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones...
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Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a...
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Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
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The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is...
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We should manage our fortunes as we do our health – enjoy it when...
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The time is always right to do what is right.
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The historian must have some conceptions of how men who are not historians behave.
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They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.