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No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an...
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Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
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History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality,...
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Beauty is handed out as undemocratically as inherited peerages, and beautiful people have done...
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Perhaps of all the creations of man, language is the most astonishing.
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A really great man is known by three signs… generosity in the design, humanity...
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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no...
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If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable...
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Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
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Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of...