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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds,...
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to...
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‘I’m very brave generally,’ he went on in a low voice ‘Only today I...
Quote #22384
Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
Quote #22806
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon...
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I know of only one true failure never having tried to grow as a...
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There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament...
Quote #15956
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me...